Socket error: Address already in use

Question

I have a CherryPy script that I frequently run to start a server. Today I was having to start and stop it a few times to fix some bugs in a config file, and I guess the socket

Answer 1

You could find the process and kill it by doing:

ps aux | grep python

, finding the process ID, and stopping it manually by doing:

sudo kill -9 PID

replacing PID with your PID.

I often have to do this while testing with Flask/CherryPy. Would be interested to see if there's an easier way (for e.g. to prevent it in the first place)