Closing Ports

[Robert Dege]

You need to kill the process that is still binding to the port.  Tomcat
might still be running in the background (or a dead process is resident).

Doing a `ps -auxwww | grep $1` (where $1 is the tomcat executable) will
help track down the process.

-Rob




> Hi.
>
> Does anyone know of a command to close an open port?
>
> I've been playing with Tomcat.  When I start Tomcat, it opens the port
> it's configured for and then crashes without closing the port.  Tomcat
> complains that the port is already open the next time I try to start it.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
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