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Port 8888 alreay in use

hi,

I was running tomcat on port 8888. I'm not sure what happened but all of a sudden tomcat seemed to crash as none of the application worked. When I tried to restart tomcat server it said port 8888 was already in use. I've tried altering the port in server.xml to port 8887 - the server starts and my (jsp) wiki works, but editing pages seems to hang and this worked fine before.

any ideas how I can free port 8888 so I can restart as was, or resolve the editing page issue?

thanks
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What OS?

If windows you can do:

     netstat -ano | findstr /c:"8888" | findstr /c:"LIST"

For Linux:

    netstat -anp | grep 8888 | grep LIST

This will show you the process id that has the port open, kill that task and you should be fine.
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sounds like your app dies but tomcat is still running
check the process/task list to see if it is running and kill it
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No tomcat is deat. When I try to restart it on port 8888 I get
Apr 6, 2010 6:47:23 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
SEVERE: Error initializing endpoint
java.net.BindException: Address already in use:8888
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint.init(JIoEndpoint.java:501)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol.init(Http11Protocol.java:177)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initialize(Connector.java:1059)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initialize(StandardService.java:677)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.java:792)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:518)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:538)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:260)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:412)
Apr 6, 2010 6:47:23 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
SEVERE: Catalina.start
LifecycleException:  Protocol handler initialization failed: java.net.BindException: Address already in use:8888
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initialize(Connector.java:1061)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initialize(StandardService.java:677)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.java:792)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:518)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:538)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:260)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:412)

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Did you do the netstat command to see what is listening on port 8888?
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> No tomcat is deat. When I try to restart it on port 8888 I get

What makes you think that
Have you checked the process list?

> java.net.BindException: Address already in use:8888

That suggests it is still running
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Hi

giltgr -

bash-3.00$  netstat -anp | grep 8888 | grep LIST
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
 will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
tcp        0      0 :::8888                     :::*                        LISTEN      2551/java


objects -

1) bash-3.00$ ps | grep apache
bash-3.00$

"ps | grep apache" or even "ps" doesn't return anythin so I don't think it's running....

Thanks
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Actually if you had done what I originally posted, which was to do the netstat command to get the process id and then kill it.  In this situation the process id was 2551.  If you had done:

     ps | grep 2551

you would have seen the process name was java.  You would have killed 2551 and then tomcat would have really been down.