stay socket

[FRamsay at castelhq.com]

Actually the socket is in a ESTABLISHED state. And yes it's causing a
problem in that a remote server
program is sending messages to the wrong socket.  So there is data in the
recv-q (about 9k) but the
process that created the socket is no longer running.  I know what program
opened it and it is not running.

I tried using "netstat -p" to get the PID 'just to be save' but netstat
segfalted when using the -p option.

I have managed to kill the socket in a rather brute force method of pulling
the ethernet cable and cycling the network
sub-subsystem.  But it's not the appoach if this occures in the field.

                              -fjr


Frank Ramsay
Systems Programmer
Castel, Inc
100 Cummings Center
Suite 157h
Beverly, MA 01915
(978) 236 1000 (voice)
(978) 236 1197 (fax)
Email: framsay at castelhq.com


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  |       To:       FRamsay at castelhq.com                                                                                         |
  |       cc:       discuss at blu.org                                                                                              |
  |       Subject:  Re: stay socket                                                                                              |
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FRamsay at castelhq.com writes:

> I have a socket showing up on netstat for a process that is no longer
> running.  Is there any command line way to force this socket to close?
> (short of re-booting).

Very precisely speaking, what are you trying to accomplish by doing
this?  Is this actually causing a problem?

Let me guess:  this is a TCP socket in the TIME_WAIT state?

--kevin
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