How to Kill a Process Running on Specific Port

The Linux operating system consider everything as file. So first of all, use lsof (List of Open Files) Linux command to identify the process id (PID) of running process on any port. The you can use kill command to kill that process using the PID.

Kill Process on Port

For example, you need to kill process running on port 3000.

sudo kill -9 $(sudo lsof -t -i:3000)

Explanation

First “sudo lsof -t -i:3000” will return the PID of the process running on port 3000.

lsof -t -i:3000

6279

The above result shows 7279 is the PID of the process on port 3000. Now you can use kill command to kill the process.

sudo kill -9 6279