Warning: remote port forwarding failed for listen port 52698

Question

I\'m using SSH to access my university\'s afs system. I like to use rmate (remote TextMate), which requires SSH tunneling, so I included this alias in my .bashrc. <

Answer 1

I had the same problem. In order to find the port that is already open, you have to issue this command on the 'corn.myschool.edu' computer:

sudo netstat -plant  | grep 52698

And then kill all of the processes that come up with this (replace xxxx with the process ids)

sudo kill -9 xxxx

(UPDATED: changed the option to be -plant as it is a nice mnemonic)