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by mstudio 1402 days ago
I sometimes leave a process running on a port for webdev and then try to open a new one resulting in the error, "Error: listen EADDRINUSE 0.0.0.0:NNN", e.g. 0.0.0.0:443.

There are many ways to search for the process, but here's what I use:

   lsof -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN -P | grep [PORT NUMBER]
Look for port num and kill the process with:

   kill -9 [PID OF PROCESS YOU WANT TO KILL]
Note if running as root user, you will need to prepend the above commands with sudo