A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux.

✨ Features:

• pleasing to the eye thanks to a nice table-view
• filterable (see filter-options below)
• interactive killing of processes
• from netstat -tulpn to somo -l (almost half the characters, can you believe it?)

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⬇️ Installation:

Option 1 - Debian:

If you use a Debian OS go to releases and download the latest .deb release.

Option 2 - From crates.io:

cargo install somo

Most of the time you will want to run this in sudo mode to see all processes and ports. By default, this is not possible when installed via cargo. But you can create a symlink so the binary can be run as root:

sudo ln -s ~/.cargo/bin/somo /usr/local/bin/somo
sudo somo   # this works now

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🏃‍♀️ Running somo:

To run somo just type:

sudo somo

Filtering:

You can use the following flags to filter based on different attributes:

filter flag	description	value
--proto	filter by either TCP or UDP	tcp or udp
--port, -p	filter by a local port	port number, e.g 5433
--remote-port	filter by a remote port	port number, e.g 443
--ip	filter by a remote IP	IP address e.g 0.0.0.0
--program	filter by a client program	program name e.g chrome
--pid, -p	filter by a PID	PID number, e.g 10000
--open, -o	filter by open connections	-
--listen, -l	filter by open connections	-
--exclude-ipv6	don't list IPv6 connections	-

Process killing:

With the --kill, -k flag you can choose to kill a process after inspecting the connections using an interactive selection option.

You can of course also apply filters and the kill-flag at the same time:

somo --program postgres -k