I can't kill a port process

Question

I'm doing in Ubuntu 12

alex@ubuntu:~/folder$ lsof -t -i:3000
4469
alex@ubuntu:~/folder$ kill 4469
alex@ubuntu:~/folder$ lsof -t -i:3000
4469

What did I do wrong?

Solution 1

kill -9 4469 

or

 fuser -k -n tcp 3000

3000 is the port number

or Use killport command :

wget https://raw.github.com/abdennour/miscs.sh/master/killport
killport 3000 

Solution 2

I know this is old, but I found this useful to me as well. Combining the lsof command from your question and the kill-9 from Abdennour TOUMI's answer into a much simpler and quicker one-line command would give the following:

kill -9 `lsof -t i:3000`

Inside of the two bactick (`) keys, you have the lsof -t i:3000 command from before, which gets the process on the port 3000. Then, the kill -9 command kills that process.

Comments

[Oyibo]

Welcome to AskUbuntu! You may want to specify Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10.

[Huckle]

What is process 4469? Do you have permission to kill it? (try sudo kill 4469). Does that process respond to the signal sent to it? (try sudo kill -9 4469, as signal 9 is required to be acted upon.)