Tag: Windows

Could not resolve host on Windows machine for curl call

Today I got a curl snippet, which was built initially in Linux. I copied it and put it into my Cmder console. Then I was a little bit surprised about the upcoming errors: I took a second look into the curl command and I was wondering why the curl was throwing the error messages: After […]
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How to remove a service from Windows

A service is a handy tool to run background processes, but how to delete them if you don’t need it anymore? In Windows, you have different ways to remove it. I will show you how you can do it by using the command line tool. You need to run the command line tool as administrator […]
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How to kill a process by port number

Today, I wanted to run my Tomcat server, but for some reason, the old instance was still running. The terminal returns the following message: The message is quite clear, but how to kill the server. I will show you how you can achieve this for Unix and Windows. As first you need to figure out […]
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