How to kill a process running on particular port in Linux?
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.).
This fuser 8080/tcp
will print you PID of process bound on 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).