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How can I close a port (seen open on netstat)?

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Mar 15, 202615776 views
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I used netstat and I see some ports open that I want closed. How do I close them? The computer is a Mac running OS X

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Try using lsof | grep portnumber to get the process that has it opened. You could also use the option to let do the filtering for a TCP port lsof -i TCP:portnumber

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