Questions tagged [socket]
is a data communications endpoint for exchanging data between processes executing within the same host operating system.
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XDMCP locally using Unix sockets
Is there any way to start a XDMCP session, say with Xephyr in LightDM, locally through Unix Sockets instead of IP?
For performance I was wondering if, somehow, I can avoid any network stack working ...
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websocat / wscat save a new file per seconds
This question is about saving a wss:// stream into multiple files... while execution (NOT AFTER)
EXAMPLE :
websocat "wss://stream.binance.com:9443/ws/btcusdt@depth" > /path/$(date +%s)....
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systemd service file closing socket
I need to run a C++ binary with systemd.
When I execute the binary directly or with a bash script it runs fine for days:
nohup ./testbinary &
./test.sh
test.sh:
#!/bin/bash
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="...
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Why is zsh listening on port 22?
I'm SSH'ed into a virtual machine and looking at /proc/<pid>/net/tcp for my zsh shell. I see this line
sl local_address rem_address st tx_queue rx_queue tr tm->when retrnsmt uid ...
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What is the difference between 0.0.0.0:99 and [::]:99?
My ss -lt
shows these lines
LISTEN 0 4096 127.0.0.53%lo:domain 0.0.0.0:* ...
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Program cannot acquire the capabilities it needs (raw sockets)
Note: This is partly a programming question, but my gut feeling is that this has more to do with the Linux' security capabilities framework in general, hence posting here instead of StackOverflow.
I ...
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Resource exhaustion with systemd socket-activated service
I recently set up a new service with systemd having the following configuration:
# myservice@.service
[Unit]
Description=My Service
[Service]
Type=simple
RemainAfterExit=yes
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What does SCM mean in unix sockets context (SCM_RIGHTS etc.)?
From man 7 unix
SCM_RIGHTS
Send or receive a set of open file descriptors from another
process. The data portion contains an integer array of the file
descriptors. The passed file descriptors ...
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Clear socket buffer of CAN adapter
I have a USB/CAN adapter, from lsusb:
OpenMoko, Inc. Geschwister Schneider CAN adapter
it provides a socket interface, from ip addr:
5: can0: <NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP,ECHO> mtu 16 qdisc pfifo_fast ...
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Netlink socket send hangs when using SCHED_FIFO and Gtk3 filechoosers
I am seeing a problem where if I create a thread which utilizes 100% of a CPU core while being in SCHED_FIFO, and then I open any application that instantiates a Gtk3 file chooser, then any ...
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IPTables log connection pid on OUTPUT chain
I'm trying to find pid of a socket using iptables OUTPUT chain log, or even better adding it into the log.
My current iptable rule:
sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -j LOG --log-prefix='[PID]' --log-level 7 --...
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Programmatically ascertain aspects of socket file
I'm trying to write a program (in C) which, as one of its features, walks the procfs to find open sockets and ascertain things like the destination/source ports/addresses (similar to what netstat and ...
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How can I guess server socket type
I try to connect to my UNIX-socket server using openbsd-netcat, but have an error:
connect(): Protocol wrong type for socket
My socket type is SOCK_SEQPACKET, and it seems that nc tries to open it as ...
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Why am I hitting file number limit prematurely?
A custom application running on one of our development systems (Ubuntu 21.10 Desktop) is bombing out with the error socket: Too many open files. So I immediately checked the limits. Here's the output:
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Why does socat fail at proxying X11 where ssh succeeds?
I am investigating how to write a simple X11 unix-socket-based proxy. I have tried various standard applications, as well as written my own code, but I am getting wildly variable results. What's ...
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How to receive a file and save it with socat
**** This is for learning purpose. I just like to deep dive into sockets, tcp, packets, etc.
For doing tests and learning, I began to "play" with socat
CONTEXT (tests) :
1- Bind a port to a ...
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Is it possible to access a Unix socket over the network?
The documentation of the Linux sandboxing application firejail says
whenever we are dealing with X11 we also need to install a new network namespace. This is the only way to block access to the ...
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What happens to sockets when a process dies to segfault?
Imagine I have a server that has a connected tcp socket with a remote client. If the server dies because of a segfault, will the socket be closed by the OS and the client be notified with a RST or ...
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Finding details of open socket
My program is leaving TCP sockets open, and I'm trying to trace the cause (I use a number of different sockets). The lsof commands shows:
myprog 258981 root 56u sock 0,8 ...
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EADDRNOTAVAIL when dropping IGMPv2 membership and forcefully sending rejoins on interval
I have a case where I want to send a IGMP membership report every N interval.
Currently I have one socket that uses setsockopt to join and maintain that
membership via the kernel. I have also set up ...
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Can I use ss and filter on PID and FD?
I'd like to be able to run ss and filter on PID=$(pgrep emacs) and FDs=(5u|6u|8u). Does ss support filtering on either (or both) of these? Or is the best option to compose with grep?
I'm currently ...
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unix domain socket permissions and umask integration between root and non root users
I'm trying to understand the permissions of a unix domain socket, when using an existing file, umask changes are required as well as the dir permissions.
If I create a world readable dir as root and ...
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How to get open connections statistics without ss or netstat
The question may sound silly but I'm trying to make a tool that uses ss data. Sadly I'm having some troubles regarding output format parsing (too much randomness depending on version and system).
So, ...
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How to listen the requests sent to a unix socket
I'm learning docker and wanted to see the API commands sent by the client to the docker server/engine. I know that the communication between the two processes happens via /var/run/docker.sock. Is ...
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Is socket sys (libc) function supposed to always return the same result for the same parameters?
I am writing a C# app that basically does a similar job that iwlist.
I am having trouble, though, in porting the IOCTL calls into .NET. I mean, the interop code I have written so far (to enable my ....
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does socket buffer occupy process memory address?
As we know, we can use setsocketopt api to alter the socket's buffer size.
Since the socket fd is created by user process, does it occupy process memory address, like the top 1G kernal space in each
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How to use socat to implement a proxy?
The goal: bidirectional communication while decoding the incoming rot13 data and encoding it back
Theory: suppose to have a proxy/ server that listens on port 8080 which needs to handle multiple ...
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listener message on port 23
I want to have a message to anyone that tries to telnet (port 23) to my server that they are connecting to the wrong port, then disconnects them.
Basically something like socat would be ideal, but I ...
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How to use socat to implement a base64 decoding proxy?
The goal: bidirectional communication while decode in a unidirectional way the incoming data
Theory: suppose to have a proxy/ server that listens on port 8080 which needs to handle multiple clients at ...
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"Holding" a socket open too long causes a new one to spawn
I am connecting to a socket via nc -U:
user@node:~$ sudo nc -U service\@name.18822.sock
user@node:~$ xmpp.status
user@node:~$ connected
If I "hold" this connection open too long, it will ...
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netcat producing EINVAL when sending to UDP IPv6 multicast
I'm using netcat on Fedora to test an IPv6 UDP multi-cast address. The command is
echo hi | nc -6 -u ff02::777:777:777 7777
netcat responds, "Invalid argument."
Running strace yields
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Why Won't the OS remove an Abstract Socket?
I created a program that creates a child thread, and the parent communicates with the child by way of an abstract socket created through:
SOCKET control_sd;
int retCode;
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Custom linux driver for custom Layer 3 protocol
We're designing a custom communication using a custom physical layer which will be used in a cubesat and I'm looking on how to create the custom layer 3 driver for linux (like ipv4 but not, the ...
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How to restrict the access/activation times for a service/socket with systemd?
I have a simple systemd service that is activated by system socket.
It's as simple as that (a little simplified):
$ systemctl cat example.socket
# /usr/lib/systemd/system/example.socket
[Unit]
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Kernel: Intercept listen call with module
I am writing an application that will detect any application calling listen(2) to open a socket for incoming connections and look up with a table of rules. It is much like ApplicationFirewall in macOS....
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Possible scenarios for Unix domain sockets interruption
When using TCP & UDP sockets, there are many scenarios which cause connection interruption (slow connection, network reset, etc).
Is there any possible situation which an unix domain socket ...
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Npm won't install SOCKET.io due to Node version?
I need to install socket.io for my node program. So, whenever I try to install socket.io by running the following commandline instruction, it says node version needs to be greater than or equal to 10 ...
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How to find applications/ports that do bind() but don't do listen()?
When a faulty application calls bind() with a TCP socket to a port P but does not follow with listen(), the port P is not listed among open ports, i.e. netstat or ss or ls /proc/net/tcp do not show it,...
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How does buffering for TCP packets work?
If I write a few times in a quick succession on a socket (with the POSIX function write), usually all the data I wrote gets sent in a single TCP packets. Unless I write too much or unless I wait too ...
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proFTPD not working due to socket bind error
I am trying to set up an FTP server on one of my devices that runs DietPi and I selected proFTPD as a server.
I have installed the software and followed some set-up information I found here. But then ...
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What would be a trivial or simple Time-of-check to time-of-use scenario in Bash?
Often when software development concepts are explained in Bash, I understand them better than say in JavaScript.
About Time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) it was stated in the current opening ...
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socat bidrectionally with a shell script. echo, read, then hand off to socat
There is a VMM which doesn't conform to the the standard VSOCK implementation: Firecracker
For each guest it creates a v.sock unix socket file
The ordinary VSOCK-CONNECT:cid:1234 then becomes:
UNIX-...
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nmap: Couldn't open a raw socket. Error: Permission denied (13)
I'm attempting to run the following command on an Ubuntu box (ssh from Windows 10 PowerShell):
sudo nmap -sU -O localhost
Starting Nmap 7.91 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2021-03-02 10:13 GMT
Couldn't open ...
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How to get actual client IP using C in linux systems instead of localhost address
I am trying to read IP address in ubuntu system using C code
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include &...
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How to "cat" a socket?
So to read and write to a socket:
Write to a socket:
echo "hello" > /dev/tcp/192.168.0.144/27002
Read from socket:
netcat -p 27002 -l
BUT... I would like to read a socket using "...
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Which thread receives SIGURG?
I recently wrote a "study note" about Unix, and I made following proposition about multi-threaded processes:
it will be almost impossible for the kernel to identify the thread that should ...
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AF_UNIX: Using recv() to receive a message sent with sendmsg()
The function prototype for the sendmsg() function is as follows:
ssize_t sendmsg(int sockfd, const struct msghdr *msg, int flags);
and the msghdr struct is such:
struct msghdr {
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I have a `raspivid` stream, which I'm piping to `ffmpeg`, now i'd like to also stream a raw version of it to a socket?
I have a process outputing an MJPEG video stream, which I pipe into ffmpeg to reduce framerate and then to a socket.
raspivid -t 999999 -cd MJPEG -w 1920 -h 1080 -o - | ffmpeg -i - -f mjpeg -r 2 - | ...
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How to create a collecting socket relay with socat?
I'm using socat to forward to another port on localhost:
socat tcp-l:5050,fork,reuseaddr tcp:localhost:2020
Problem: if the program running on 2020 is down, socat will answer incoming connections like:...
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Why is the socket number incremented by one in libssh2 x11 forwarding example?
I am looking to x11 forwarding example in libssh2 source (example/x11.c).
In the function x11_send_receive I see this code:
rc = select(sock + 1, &set, NULL, NULL, &timeval_out);
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