Originally posted by: ora_fad

Friends,
On an AIX 6 platforma I'm trying to install an application
which wants some ports free.
One of them is 1833.
netstat -Aan | grep 1833 give me

f1000700011833b0 tcp6 0 0 ::1.51751
. LISTEN

then I grep f1000700011833b0 and kill the process by "kill -9 process_id"
but after that
netstat -Aan | grep 1833 give me
gives again the same result.

Can somebody hint me how to free the port?
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Originally posted by: MarkTaylor

erm ...

Your grep is returning "1833" from the tcpcb address, and not port 1833 .. so, not sure what your issue is here ..

Also, to get the PID you should use kdb sockinfo or rmsock command using the tcpcb address from netstat -Aan ala

rmsock f1000700011833b0 tcpcb .. etc ..

HTH
Mark Taylor
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Originally posted by: ora_fad

What I'm trying to do is to get the pid of the process which is using the given port.
How can I achieve this?
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Originally posted by: ostost

Here you'll find how to do it:

https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1000491
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Originally posted by: ora_fad

I did like mentioned in the link.
But when I rmsock ........ tcpcb it says its not a socket.
Any ideas? PLease hint/
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Originally posted by: DjRobin69

lsof -i :Port number will tell you all processes using that port, you cannot remove a port with active processes, and you probably got the syntax wrong if it is saying it doesn't exist
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