linuxunixportkill-process

How to kill a process running on particular port in Linux?

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.

Solution

  • 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.