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Discussion on: the dreaded port error "bind: address already in use", kill it!

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Petry DeChamp Richardson

Tried playing around with this and read up on the man page. Seems like it doesn't know about options -k or -n (-kn). I tried variations and none worked.

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lbonanomi • Edited

How does that old joke about IT standards go, again? : \

The GNU fuser implementation from psmisc accepts -n and -k options, but distribution is far from universal.

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Petry DeChamp Richardson

ya figured that was the case lol.

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