Category Archives: macOS

Find and kill a process on a specific port (lsof)

By Sebastian Basner | Published: 9. November 2016

You might all have experienced the situation when you want to start a server either from within your IDE or via the terminal to only get the error that the “port is already in use” and the startup is aborted. This is mostly caused by aborting the server or a crash of the IDE which […]

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Solution for the IntelliJ issue on macOS Sierra

By Sebastian Basner | Published: 3. October 2016

Jetbrains has come up with a solution for the scrolling problem with IntelliJ IDEA based IDEs under macOS Sierra. They released a modified JDK8 which hast to be set as boot JDK for IntelliJ. You can download the JDK here. For setting it as the boot JDK you need to got to action menu. This […]