Thanks for the replies. I don't want to run this script as sudo/root user and hence not looking at lsof/fuser. I think netstat and awk looks good solution for now. Following is what I have used for now. [[ netstat -nlp | grep 8082 | awk -F "/" '{ print $1 }' | awk '{ print $7 }' ]] -- CS. On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:33 PM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Silviu Hutanu wrote: >> Hi , >> >> You can use this: >> >> kill -9 `netstat -antp|grep 8080|grep java|awk '{ print $7 }'|cut -d'/' -f >> 1` >> >> But if had to do the same thing I would search in the running processes >> instead using netstat, anyway you can extract the pid in the same way. >> > Yeah, but don't forget you may have shared memory, etc, left laying > around. Those need to be cleaned out as well. > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos