How can I kill whatever process is using port 8080 so that I can vagrant up?

Question

On MacOSX, I\'m using Packer to build a Vagrant box so I need to continually bring it up and tear it down. I\'m attempting to \'vagrant up\', and receive the standard error

Answer 1

Fast and quick solution:

lsof -n -i4TCP:8080

PID is the second field. Then, kill that process:

kill -9 PID

Less fast but permanent solution

1. Go to /usr/local/bin/ (Can use command+shift+g in finder)

2. Make a file named stop. Paste the below code in it:

#!/bin/bash
touch temp.text
lsof -n -i4TCP:$1 | awk '{print $2}' > temp.text
pidToStop=`(sed '2q;d' temp.text)`
> temp.text
if [[ -n $pidToStop ]]
then
kill -9 $pidToStop
echo "Congrates!! $1 is stopped."
else
echo "Sorry nothing running on above port"
fi
rm temp.text

3. Save this file.
4. Make the file executable chmod 755 stop
5. Now, go to terminal and write stop 8888 (or any port)

Answer 2

It can be Cisco AnyConnect. Check if /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.cisco.anyconnect.vpnagentd.plist exists. Then unload it with launchctl and delete from /Library/LaunchDaemons

Answer 3

In case above-accepted answer did not work, try below solution. You can use it for port 8080 or for any other ports.

sudo lsof -i tcp:3000 

Replace 3000 with whichever port you want. Run below command to kill that process.

sudo kill -9 PID

PID is process ID you want to kill.

Below is the output of commands on mac Terminal.

Answer 4

Use the following command:

lsof -n -i4TCP:8080 | awk '{print$2}' | xargs kill -9

The process id of port 8080 will be picked and killed forcefully using kill -9.

Answer 5

sudo lsof -i:8080

By running the above command you can see what are all the jobs running.

kill -9 <PID Number>

Enter the PID (process identification number), so this will terminate/kill the instance.