To determine what daemon or program is listening on a port in Linux or OS X you can use the lsof command. You need to run the command while logged in as root or if your operating system supports sudo like OS X, you can use that.
Command to run in Linux:
lsof -i -nP
Command to run in OS X:
sudo lsof -i -nP
In Linux you can use the command “ldd” to display what shared libraries a program requires. This is handy if you need to figure out what missing libraries are required to get a program running. Here is the syntax for the Linux ldd command along with example usage for it:
ldd pathToExecuteable
Example:
ldd /usr/bin/ftp
Mac OS X does not include the ldd command. Instead you need to use the command “otool”. Otool gives you basically the same information as what ldd does in Linux. Here is the syntax for the otool command along with example usage for it:
otool -L pathToExecuteable
Example:
otool -L /usr/bin/ftp
While upgrading Fink from the the 10.4-Transitional branch to the 10.4 final branch you may get an error similar to this after running update.pl:
Can’t locate Fink/Bootstrap.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Network/Library/Perl /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.6/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.1 .) at ./update.pl line 36.
To fix the problem, execute the script with this command:
sudo env PERL5LIB=$PERL5LIB ./update.pl
You may need to add the “/sw/lib/perl5/Fink” to your PERL5LIB environment variable which can be modified by editing your .bash_profile file in your home directory.
Fink is a great program that makes installing open source applications easy in OS X. One day when running self update in fink I got an error that said the process was unable to move the Fink directory. To fix this error you need to remove the old fink directory and its associated temporary file:
sudo rm -R /sw/fink.old sudo rm fink.tmp