Trouble figuring out what's starting this process

[laredotornado]

Hi,

I'm using Mac 10.7.5. There is a process running on port 8787, and I'm having trouble figuring out where its coming from. I got its process ID by running

	Daves-MacBook-Pro:bin davea$ lsof -i tcp:8787
	COMMAND  PID  USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
	java    1379 davea   11u  IPv4 0xffffff8016af5c00      0t0  TCP *:msgsrvr (LISTEN)

and then I search for the process by running

	Daves-MacBook-Pro:bin davea$ ps -elf | grep java
	  501  1379  1361     4000   0  47  0  1645436 188456 -      S    ffffff8016672540 ??         0:10.87 /usr/bin/java -D  9:19AM
	  501  1506   360     4006   0  31  0  2434892    572 -      R+   ffffff8018912880 ttys006    0:00.00 grep java         9:20AM

Is there anything else I can do to give me more info about where its coming from? What's weird is that if I try and kill the process by doing

	Daves-MacBook-Pro:bin davea$ sudo kill -9 1379

it springs back to life …

	Daves-MacBook-Pro:bin davea$ ps -elf | grep java
	  501  1528  1510     4000   0  47  0  1728968 108712 -      U    ffffff8016672540 ??         0:04.52 /usr/bin/java -D  9:22AM
	  501  1531   360     4006   0  31  0  2434892    408 -      R+   ffffff8016e11a80 ttys006    0:00.00 grep java         9:22AM

Thanks for any help, - Dave

[SirDice]

It's most likely the Jboss debug port.

[dmacks]

Run ps on the parent-process of the one in question (the PPID field in the 'ps -elf' output).

[hayne]

Note that you can see process parentage in Activity Monitor if you set it to "hierarchic" mode.

[agentx]

Have you got Filemaker Server or Tomcat running ?

[laredotornado]

Yup it was a JBoss process. Thanks for everyone's help. - Dave