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Q&A Find out which process is using a port

Use netstat -lp. Typically in such a scenario you will likely be mostly interested in IP sockets, in which case you can also add -A inet,inet6. To get numerical port numbers, add -n as well. (See ...

posted 9mo ago by Canina‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Canina‭ · 2024-02-22T09:00:09Z (9 months ago)
Use `netstat -lp`.

Typically in such a scenario you will likely be mostly interested in IP sockets, in which case you can also add `-A inet,inet6`. To get numerical port numbers, add `-n` as well. (See the man page for details.)

Look at the "local address" field to find the port binding in question, and then look at the "PID/Program name" field to determine which application has bound to that port.

The contents of /proc/*pid*/cmdline and the target of the /proc/*pid*/exe symlink may help you narrow down which process and invocation that is. `pstree pid` can also be helpful. In all three cases, replace the literal "pid" with the actual process ID value as determined from `netstat` output.