I encounted a problem today:
When I started HDP docker container, an error occured:
listen tcp 0.0.0.0:8086: bind: address already in use
According to error message, I know that port 8086 was already in use, so I tried some commands to determine which program was using port 8086.
lsof -i:8086
lsof -i tcp:8086
lsof | grep 8086
But all of commands above make no outputs!
I felt really confused about that, after some searching on google, I tried another command:
netstat -pna | grep 8086
I got correct output from this command.
I know some differences between lsof and netstat, but I really do not know why I cannot get any output from lsof -i:8086?.
Here are some differences between two commands I searched from google:
netstat(net statistic) is connection based,it shows NW connections (udp/tcp ports), routing tables, interface, multi-cast membership, etc.
lsof(list of open files) is application based, this is kind of like netstat + ps, there you can see all accessed ports, NW connections, etc. but lsof includes stuff like my local emacs window terminal session (tty dev/pts/n) which is not part of netstat
I faced a similar issue today. The solution was to run the lsof command with sudo privileges.
sudo lsof -i:8086
should print the desired output.