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I am having trouble with exiting past nodemon instance.

COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
node    98355 user   14u  IPv6 0x51b8b9857a4e56a3      0t0  TCP *:redwood-broker (LISTEN)

It has taken my 3000 port so I am trying to exit it. I searched it by using lsof -wni tcp:3000

I could see that PID is 98335, so tried kill 98335, kill -9 98335, sudo kill 98335, sudo kill -9 98335 and so on but no luck, it's just saying 

kill: kill 98335 failed: no such process

But if I save something, nodemon watching job is printing out to console, which means that process is still alive.

Please help me.

Barak Shirali
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https://github.com/remy/nodemon/issues/1386

To work around the issue, find the proces running on the port number and kill it:

 kill -9 $(lsof -t -i:3000)

OR

Install 1.17.5 npm install nodemon@1.17.5 --save-dev --save-exact.

urosc
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  • yay. this question returned for searching how to kill a node process without process.title. (since process.title doesn't work... anywhere). – Cory Mawhorter Apr 11 '21 at 01:05
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you can use 

ps -ef | grep node

to find the process id

and then 

sudo kill -9 <PID>

PID is the process ID. Try the following command in terminal to list and search for process using a regex:-

ps gx | grep 'Symantec'

The above example is to list all the 'Symantec' related processes. Replace 'Symantec' with your own phrase. Next use variations of 'kill' command. You can either use:-

kill pid

Replace 'pid' with actual process id. Or use,

killall

as suggested before. To reiterate another useful suggestion, use

man kill

to see the manual for 'kill' command and also scroll down and see related commands which is mentioned under.

Lekens
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  • This should be downvoted into the negatives, because the person who answered clearly doesn't realize that nodemon is something that respawns the instance after it's killed. A general "what does 'kill' do" answer does not apply. – TiggerToo Mar 01 '19 at 21:19
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to kill all running node processes with -9 option

sudo pkill -f node -9
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sudo kill -9 PID

This will forcefully kill your process

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you kill wrong PID its 98355 not 98335

Palak Gandhi
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  • PID depends on your env. each process has it's own ID. These numbers are valid only for the running process while it's running. Even on same machine re-run same thing and it may have different PID each time. Learn more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_identifier – Lukas Liesis Aug 24 '21 at 09:48