I’ve tried all sorts of kill commands. When I go sudo netstat -lpn | grep :3000 I get a PID for a process. I kill it an another one immediately appears. I’ve tried every command I found on stack overflow and nothing can kill it.
Is there a way to wipe my droplet? I just started it so this would be easier then spending any more time trying to debug this.
This all stems from the inability to run my node app, but I believe this will be the first step to solving the larger issue.
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I found this that finally killed it
killall -s KILL node. Maybe specific to this case, I don’t know. No otherkillcommands worked. Thanks for the reponses~Perhaps search for node:
And pm
Hi,
It’s likely your nodejs is running as a service in /etc/systemd/system and so systemd restarts it the second you kill it (it’s made to restart automatically). So check /etc/systemd/system for nodejs services:
If it’s there you can stop it or disable it: