hpux 11.11 freeing up a port

[ikeleong]

hello;

I've got cryptic Oracle DBA folks who wants me to release a port on 10284

doing a 'netstat -an | grep 10284' I get:

tcp 0 0 *.10284 *.* LISTEN
I've never had to free up a tcp port, what is the best way to do it.

[spex]

Kill the process listening on that port, if it's safe to do so. 'lsof' will tell you the pid using 10284/tcp.

PCS

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Lsof will easily identify the process but never, ever follow the instructions of a DBA about killing a process on a given port. The process associated with that port may have nothing to do with a database and may be some unrelated but critical process. So listen to the DBA patiently and then investigate carefully and only if you are convinced that this is a safe process to terminate, proceed.