I say this is a bit OT because it's actually on Solaris, not Linux. A friend asked me and I thought that the problem presumably happens on Linux, too, so thought someone here might be able to shed some light on it. Alternatively, if someone can point me at a better place to look or post a query, that would be great.
My mate has a process that has a socket open. The process has been killed off (as far as he can tell ... can't see it anymore in a ps) but the socket is still open (he can see it in netstat and trying to run the program that opens it again dies because the port is in use). Unfortunately, this is something he didn't write, so he can't change the source code. He's just looking for a way to terminate it with extreme prejudice, so that he can run this thing again (I assume it's some kind of server, but I didn't think to ask). Any ideas or pointers? I'm going to do a search with google in a minute, but I figured I'd get a few of the bright minds running in parallel :-). Thanks in advance, Harry O. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
