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How to close or (unbind?) a port left open by a rogue application?
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I am using Fedora 13 64bit. My eclipse program starts a server on port 9050 but I shutdown the program, eclipse fails to properly shutdown the server. Restarting eclipse has no effect. How can I close or unbind a port forcibly from command line? I know rebooting or log off and back on will clear th…
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Find the process you're looking for and kill it. From manual: -n This option inhibits the conversion of network numbers to host names for network files. Inhibiting conversion may make lsof run faster. It is also useful when host name lookup is not w…
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