How to monitor connections to machine?

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vouchey

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Of course OSX keeps logs of all FTP, share, rlogin, etc. connections. But what I'd like is some kind of *realtime* tracking of connections to my machine. Ideally, some kind of window I can keep open that shows when someone connects to my machine. Does anyone know of a Mac or unix tool (I'm not adverse to keeping a terminal window open) that will do this for me?
 
Well - you could write a little front-end to netstat ... if you just want a one-off shot, then you can go to the network utility, go to the netstat tab and have a look at the output. Or from the Terminal.app type in netstat -a
Gives you LOADS of information, so you may want to have a quick look through the man page:
man netstat
to see what it all means.
There may or may not already be a GUI frontend for it (check with Google or the like) but I always use the CLI version.

Cheers,

C
 
Well, you could install a firewall product like
Norton Personal Firewall which will do exactly what you want, and then some.
 
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