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I tried to close the tomcat using ./shutdown.sh from tomcat /bin directory. But found that the server was not closed properly. And thus I was unable to restart
My tomcat is running on port 8080.

I want to kill the tomcat process running on 8080. I first want to have the list of processes running on a specific port (8080) in order to select which process to kill.

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This fuser 8080/tcp will print the PID of the process bound to that port.

And this fuser -k 8080/tcp will kill that process.

Works on Linux only. More universal is use of lsof -i4 (or 6 for IPv6).

General form:

# list the TCP process bound to port PORT
fuser PORT/tcp
# Example: list the TCP process bound to port 8080
fuser 8080/tcp

# list the UDP process bound to port PORT
fuser PORT/udp
# Example: list the UDP process bound to port 8080
fuser 8080/udp
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does this close a possible connected socket to 8080 as well?
It does not properly close the port. The port is put into TIME_WAIT state after the parent process is killed. The OS will then eventually completely close the port after about 60 seconds. It means that you can't reuse the port for at least 60 seconds (unless you give the reuse option to the socket).
On Darwin, must be using a different version of fuser. Only takes a file, doesn't support -k.
'fuser -k -n tcp 8080' will kill the process too
@dbliss fuser is part of psmisc. In case you get fuser: command not found, install psmisc. For CentOS/RHEL 7, run sudo yum install psmisc
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To list any process listening to the port 8080:

lsof -i:8080

To kill any process listening to the port 8080:

kill $(lsof -t -i:8080)

or more violently:

kill -9 $(lsof -t -i:8080)

(-9 corresponds to the SIGKILL - terminate immediately/hard kill signal: see List of Kill Signals and What is the purpose of the -9 option in the kill command?. If no signal is specified to kill, the TERM signal a.k.a. -15 or soft kill is sent, which sometimes isn't enough to kill a process.).


To install lsof, if needed:

sudo apt install lsof

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kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec] This is what I am getting when I Execute your commands
@SudhirBelagali did you it with super user sudo
Worked on my Mac as well
I would like to add that sometimes you do not have permissions to see the process id, in that case you need to do sudo lsof -i:8080.
lsof -t -i:8080 | xargs -r kill handles the empty list case better.
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Use the command

 sudo netstat -plten |grep java

used grep java as tomcat uses java as their processes.

It will show the list of processes with port number and process id

tcp6       0      0 :::8080                 :::*                    LISTEN      
1000       30070621    16085/java

the number before /java is a process id. Now use kill command to kill the process

kill -9 16085

-9 implies the process will be killed forcefully.

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You might want to add that one might need root privilegues to get process names via netstat.
@JonasWielicki you can see the ones you own w/out root privileges.
I needed root privileges for netstat. Is there a way to actually know what the process came from? As far as I could tell I had closed all applications but it may have been from a terminal window where I inadvertently pushed the processes to a background task. Maybe I should have ran the terminal command 'ps' to see all processes first...
sudo netstat -plten | grep :8080 will work even when you do not know the application. This found a ruby process that lsof -i did not find for me.
netstat is the deprecated alternative to ss. Here an example on how to use it.
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Option 1 A One-liner to kill only LISTEN on specific port:

kill -9 $(lsof -t -i:3000 -sTCP:LISTEN)

Option 2 If you have npm installed you can also run

npx kill-port 3000

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Based on this answer I created a function into ~/.bashrc: killp() { kill -9 $(lsof -t -i:"$1" -sTCP:LISTEN) } in order to be able to use it like this killp 3000. (Do not forget to add new lines for { })
Nit: syntax error for the extra `
possible TOCTOU issue depending on the use case
Now you should use the following command if you want to execute this process in one line: sudo kill -9 $(sudo lsof -t -i :your_port) For example: sudo kill -9 $(sudo lsof -t -i :3306)
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One liner, a time saver

kill -9 $(lsof -t -i tcp:8080)

Explanation here: use a combination of lsof and kill

root@localhost:~# lsof -i tcp:8080
COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE  DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
java    23672 sine  238u  IPv6 3028222      0t0  TCP localhost:http-alt (LISTEN)

select pid and use kill

kill 23672

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This also kills for example the web browser if you have a tab open for the given port. Gal Bracha's answer doesn't have that issue.
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You can use the lsof command. Let port number like here is 8090

lsof -i:8090

This command returns a list of open processes on this port.

Something like…

COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
ssh 75782 eoin 5u IPv6 0x01c1c234 0t0 TCP localhost:8090 (LISTEN)

To free the port, kill the process using it(the process id is 75782)…

kill -9 75782

This one worked for me. here is the link from the original post: link

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to kill process forcefully you will need to use -9 like kill -9 75782; as sometimes few processes aren't kill with just kill
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If you want to kill a process running on port number 8080 then first you need to find the 8080 port process identification number(PID) and then kill it. Run the following command to find 8080 port number PID:

sudo lsof -t -i:8080

Here,

  • sudo - command to ask admin privilege(user id and password).
  • lsof - list of files(Also used for to list related processes)
  • -t - show only process ID
  • -i - show only internet connections related process
  • :8080 - show only processes in this port number

So you can now easily kill your PID using following command:

sudo kill -9 <PID>

Here,

  • kill - command to kill the process
  • -9 - forcefully

You can use one command to to kill a process on a specific port using the following command:

sudo kill -9 $(sudo lsof -t -i:8080)

For more you can see the following link How to kill a process on a specific port on linux

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thanks mate. sudo kill -9 $(sudo lsof -t -i:8080) worked for me
Awesome, this is the command that worked for me, Ubuntu
This command works perfectly fine !
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Best way to kill all processes on a specific port;

kill -9 $(sudo lsof -t -i:8080)

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doesn't sudo prompt for password
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]. It seems to -l is missing as recommended kill -l -9 $(sudo lsof -t -i:8983)
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This prints to stdout the process ids of everything running on <port_number>:

fuser -n tcp <port_number> 

It also prints some stuff to stderr, so:

fuser -n tcp <port_number> 2> /dev/null

We can then supply these process ids to the kill command:

sudo kill $(fuser -n tcp <port_number> 2> /dev/null)

You could also put this in a function if you do it a lot:

function killport() {
    sudo kill $(fuser -n tcp $1 2> /dev/null)
}

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To know the pid of service running on particular port :

netstat -tulnap | grep :*port_num*

you will get the description of that process. Now use kill or kill -9 pid. Easily killed.

e.g

netstat -ap | grep :8080

tcp6       0      0 :::8080       :::*    LISTEN      1880/java 

Now:

kill -9 1880

Remember to run all commands as root

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Get the PID of the task and kill it.

lsof -ti:8080 | xargs kill

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Thanks for the answer. Very smoothly works in Mac OS. You are the best. Just Up Vote.
Works well with port ranges, too, like lsof -ti:8080-8089 | xargs kill.
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First you need to do is run (replace with your port number):

fuser -k 3000/tcp

This will release the port. After you run the above command run:

service docker restart

And your problem is resolved.

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try like this,

 sudo fuser -n tcp -k 8080

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This will kill programs running on port 80

sudo fuser -k 80/tcp

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correct but redundant - identical to an above answer
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Choose the port number and apply the grep in netstat command as shown below

netstat -ap | grep :7070

Console Output

tcp 0 0 :::7070 :::* LISTEN 3332/java

Kill the service based on PID ( Process Identification Number )

kill -9 3332

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Run the following command to find 8080 port number PID:

sudo lsof -t -i:8080

You can now easily kill your PID using following command:

sudo kill -9

You can use one command to to kill a process on a specific port using the following command:

sudo kill -9 $(sudo lsof -t -i:8000)

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You can know list of all ports running in system along with its details (pid, address etc.) :

netstat -tulpn

You can know details of a particular port number by providing port number in following command :

sudo netstat -lutnp | grep -w '{port_number}'

ex: sudo netstat -lutnp | grep -w '8080' Details will be provided like this :

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name

if you want to kill a process using pid then : kill -9 {PID}

if you want to kill a process using port number : fuser -n tcp {port_number}

use sudo if you are not able to access any.

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Linux: You can use this command if you know the port :

netstat -plten | grep LISTEN | grep 8080

AIX:

netstat -Aan | grep LISTEN | grep 8080

You then take the first column (example: f100050000b05bb8) and run the following command:

rmsock f100050000b05bb8 tcpcb

kill process.

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  1. lsof -i tcp:8000 This command lists the information about process running in port 8000

  2. kill -9 [PID] This command kills the process

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I just noticed that I downvoted this by accident a few weeks ago, if you edit your anwer slightly I should be able to remove it
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Linux: First you can find PID of this command if you know the port :

netstat -tulpn 

example:-

 Local Address  Foreign Address  State    PID/Program name

  :::3000       :::*             LISTEN    15986/node 

You then take the kill process. run the following command:

kill -9 PID

Expample: -

kill -9 15986

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Simply run this command. Don't forget to replace portnumber, with your port ;)

  kill -9 $(sudo lsof -t -i:portnumber)

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No need sudo in mac most of the time.
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kill -9 `fuser 8080/tcp|xargs -n 1`, this commands also kills the process that listens on port 8080 with TCP connection

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sudo apt-get install psmisc (or sudo yum install psmisc)
sudo fuser 80/tcp

Result: 80/tcp: 1858 1867 1868 1869 1871

Kill process one by one

kill -9 1858

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This is the solution for Windows:

C:\Users\Niroshan>netstat -ano|findstr "PID :8080"

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State PID
TCP 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 18264

taskkill /pid 18264 /f

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The question asks about Linux.
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My personal way to solve this issue can be found is this gist I made, in the gist the first step is to run:

sudo lsof -i [PROTOCOL]:[PORT]

And then run:

sudo kill -9 [PROCESS ID]

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What should be the protocol? localhost is said to be unknown
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I'm working on a Yocto Linux system that has a limited set of available Linux tools. I wanted to kill the process that was using a particular port (1883).

First, to see what ports we are listening to I used the following command:

root@root:~# netstat -lt
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:hostmon         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 localhost.localdomain:domain 0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:9080            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:1883            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 :::hostmon              :::*                    LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 localhost:domain        :::*                    LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 :::ssh                  :::*                    LISTEN      
tcp        0      0 :::1883                 :::*                    LISTEN      

Next, I found the name of the process using port 1883 in the following way:

root@root:~# fuser 1883/tcp
290 
root@root:~# ps | grep 290
  290 mosquitt 25508 S    /usr/sbin/mosquitto -c /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf
12141 root      8444 S    grep 290

As we can see above, it's the program /usr/sbin/mosquitto that's using port 1883.

Lastly, I killed the process:

root@root:~# systemctl stop mosquitto

I used systemctl becuase in this case it was a systemd service.

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In my case cent os has some issue in suggested answer. So I used following solution :

  ss -tanp | grep 65432 | head -1 | grep -Po "(?<=pid=).*(?=,)" | xargs kill

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  1. first check the process netstat -lt
  2. check process id fuser <port number>/tcp
  3. kill the process running on the port kill <process id>

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Other way with Git Bash:

stopProcessByPortNumber() {
port=":${1}"
portStrLine="$(netstat -ano | findstr LISTENING | findstr $port)"
processId="$(grep -oP '(\d+)(?!.*\d)' <<< $portStrLine)"
echo $processId
taskkill -PID $processId -F
}

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Just this commands work for me:

ps -aux | grep 8000

and then:

sudo kill <PID>

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ps -aux including following headers, and port is not one of them: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND

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