Determine the process pid listening on a certain port
netstat -p -l | grep $PORT
and lsof -i :$PORT
solutions are good but I prefer fuser $PORT/tcp
extension syntax to POSIX (which work for coreutils
) as with pipe:
pid=`fuser $PORT/tcp`
it prints pure pid so you can drop sed
magic out.
One thing that makes fuser
my lover tools is ability to send signal to that process directly (this syntax is also extension to POSIX):
$ fuser -k $port/tcp # with SIGKILL
$ fuser -k -15 $port/tcp # with SIGTERM
$ fuser -k -TERM $port/tcp # with SIGTERM
Also -k is supported by FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fuser
Short version which you can pass to kill command:
lsof -i:80 -t
The -p
flag of netstat
gives you PID of the process:
netstat -l -p
*use sudo if showing -
instead of PID
Edit: The command that is needed to get PIDs of socket users in FreeBSD is sockstat
.
As we worked out during the discussion with @Cyclone, the line that does the job is:
sockstat -4 -l | grep :80 | awk '{print $3}' | head -1