Hi Murali,
my remark was ment as a sort of joke as well.
However, he remains the master !
Next time I will add some extra
It clarifies the feeling behind a word.
Perderabo,
netstat -a | grep <port-number>
Now you'll see the process description(most right column) that is attached.
When doing a ps -ef | grep <process found using netstat>
Now you also have the PID resolved using ps. I know it's not always working. So let's just forget the whole thing and use lsof
Regs David