Linux find and kill a process by port or name
Bash Dasun Kalupahana 85 views
ss -tulpn | grep :8000 # who is using port 8000
lsof -i :8000 # same, with lsof
kill <PID> # graceful stop
kill -9 <PID> # force stop
pkill -f "php artisan serve" # kill by command nameFinds what is listening on a port and stops it. Try a normal kill first and only use kill -9 if the process won’t stop.
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