warning for fuser and tcp/udp ports not found

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1ce8367e275c6ab6cf1e039867d8526dece6f6ba..5a0daca2bdd0afb5a43196e803133ef5b179df28 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Changes in 21.7
        * pstree checks to see it is a real tty Debian #326500
        * pstree shows child threads with {commandname} Debian #230924
        * better capitalisation with usage SF# 1150042
+       * Added warning about fuser and tcp/udp access Debian #327813
 
        * Applied psmisc-21.4-alt-progname to find pstrees name
        * configure.in checks for tinfo library

diff --git a/doc/fuser.1 b/doc/fuser.1
index 0d89cc3cffc90cfd6846fdc2a29f022b8c51dfa6..5d8076760026fb59b14b6aa5f1a51ade578b88f6 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/fuser.1
+++ b/doc/fuser.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH FUSER 1 2004-11-09 "Linux" "User Commands"
+.TH FUSER 1 2005-09-13 "Linux" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 fuser \- identify processes using files or sockets
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -6,13 +6,16 @@ fuser \- identify processes using files or sockets
 .B fuser
 .RB [ \-a | \-s | \-c ]
 .RB [ \-4 | \-6 ]
-.RB [ \-n\ \fIspace ]
+.RB [ \-n\ 
+.IR space\  ]
 .RB [ \-k
 .RB [ \-i ]
-.RB [ \-\fIsignal\fR ]
+.RB [ \-
+.IR signal\  ]
 ]
 .RB [ \-muvf ]
-.I name ...
+.I name
+...
 .br
 .B fuser
 .RB \-l
@@ -154,6 +157,15 @@ The \fB\-k\fP option only works on processes. If the user is the kernel,
 fuser \-m /dev/sgX will show (or kill with the \-k flag) all processes, even
 if you don't have that device configured. There may be other devices it
 does this for too.
+.PP
+.B fuser
+cannot report on any processes that it doesn't have permission to look at
+the file descriptor table for.  The most common time this problem occurs
+is when looking for TCP or UDP sockets when running
+.B fuser
+as a non-root user. In this case 
+.B fuser
+will report no access
 .SH AUTHORS
 .PP
 Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>