I have a simple TCP server that listens on a port.
var net = require("net");
var server = net.createServer(function(socket) {
socket.end("Hello!\n");
});
server.listen(7777);
I start it with node server.js
and then close it with Ctrl + Z on Mac. When I try to run it again with node server.js
I get this error message:
node.js:201
throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
^
Error: listen EADDRINUSE
at errnoException (net.js:670:11)
at Array.0 (net.js:771:26)
at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:192:41)
Am I closing the program the wrong way? How can I prevent this from happening?
$ sudo killall node
in another terminal works on mac, while killall node
not working:
$ killall node
No matching processes belonging to you were found
on linux try: pkill node
on windows:
Taskkill /IM node.exe /F
or
from subprocess import call
call(['taskkill', '/IM', 'node.exe', '/F'])
Ctrl+Z suspends it, which means it is still running as a suspended background process.
You are likely now at a terminal prompt...
Give the command fg
to resume the process in the foreground.
type Ctrl+C to properly kill it.
(NOTE: the following commands may require root, so sudo ...
is your friend)
pkill -9 node
or, if you don't have pkill, this may work:
killall node
or perhaps this:
kill $(ps -e | grep node | awk '{print $1}')
sometimes the process will list its own grep, in which case you'll need:
kill $(ps -e | grep dmn | awk '{print $2}')
.
h/t @ruffin from the comments on the question itself. I had the same issue and his comment helped me solve it myself.
I'm adding this answer because for many projects with production deployments, we have scripts that stop these processes so we don't have to.
A clean way to manage your Node Server processes is using the forever
package (from NPM
).
npm install forever -g
forever start -al ./logs/forever.log -ao ./logs/out.log -ae ./logs/err.log server.js
info: Forever processing file: server.js
forever stop server.js
info: Forever stopped process:
uid command script forever pid id logfile uptime
[0] sBSj "/usr/bin/nodejs/node" ~/path/to/your/project/server.js 23084 13176 ~/.forever/forever.log 0:0:0:0.247
This will cleanly shutdown your Server application.
Or alternatively you can do all of these in one line:
kill -9 $(ps aux | grep '\snode\s' | awk '{print $2}')
You can replace node inside '\snode\s' with any other process name.
My use case: on MacOS, run/rerun multiple node servers on different ports from a script
run: "cd $PATH1 && node server1.js & cd $PATH2 && node server2.js & ..."
stop1: "kill -9 $(lsof -nP -i4TCP:$PORT1 | grep LISTEN | awk '{print $2}')"
stop2, stop3...
rerun: "stop1 & stop2 & ... & stopN ; run
for more info about finding a process by a port: Who is listening on a given TCP port on Mac OS X?
If you want to stop your server with npm stop
or something like this. You can write the code that kill your server process as:
require('child_process').exec(`kill -9 ${pid}`)
Check this link for the detail: https://gist.github.com/dominhhai/aa7f3314ad27e2c50fd5
Though this is a late answer, I found this from NodeJS docs:
The 'exit' event is emitted when the REPL is exited either by receiving the
.exit
command as input, the user pressing<ctrl>-C
twice to signal SIGINT, or by pressing<ctrl>-D
to signal 'end' on the input stream. The listener callback is invoked without any arguments.
So to summarize you can exit by:
.exit
in nodejs REPL.<ctrl>-C
twice. <ctrl>-D
. process.exit(0)
meaning a natural exit from REPL. If you want to return any other status you can return a non zero number. process.kill(process.pid)
is the way to kill using nodejs api from within your code or from REPL.You can use fuser to get what you want to be done.
In order to obtain the process ids of the tasks running on a port you can do:
fuser <<target_port>>/tcp
Let's say the port is 8888, the command becomes:
fuser 8888/tcp
And to kill a process that is running on a port, simply add -k switch.
fuser <<target_port>>/tcp -k
Example (port is 8888):
fuser 8888/tcp -k
That's it! It will close the process listening on the port. I usually do this before running my server application.
Ctrl+Z suspends it, which means it can still be running.
Ctrl+C will actually kill it.
you can also kill it manually like this:
ps aux | grep node
Find the process ID (second from the left):
kill -9 PROCESS_ID
This may also work
killall node
you can type .exit
to quit node js REPL
you can work following command to be specific in localserver kill(here: 8000)
http://localhost:8000/ kill PID(processId):
$:lsof -i tcp:8000
It will give you following groups of TCPs:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
node 21521 ubuntu 12u IPv6 345668 0t0 TCP *:8000 (LISTEN)
$:kill -9 21521
It will kill processId corresponding to TCP*:8000
I ran into an issue where I have multiple node servers running, and I want to just kill one of them and redeploy it from a script.
Note: This example is in a bash shell on Mac.
To do so I make sure to make my node
call as specific as possible. For example rather than calling node server.js
from the apps directory, I call node app_name_1/app/server.js
Then I can kill it using:
kill -9 $(ps aux | grep 'node\ app_name_1/app/server.js' | awk '{print $2}')
This will only kill the node process running app_name_1/app/server.js.
If you ran node app_name_2/app/server.js
this node process will continue to run.
If you decide you want to kill them all you can use killall node
as others have mentioned.
Late answer but on windows, opening up the task manager with CTRL+ALT+DEL then killing Node.js processes will solve this error.
If you are running Node.js interactively (the REPL):
Ctrl + C will take back you to > prompt then type:
process.exit()
or just use Ctrl + D.
For MacOS
Run the below code and hit enter
sudo kill $(sudo lsof -t -i:4200)
Source: Stackoverflow.com