Forcing TCP sockets to close ?

[noah at concord.org (Noah Fields)]

I just recently had a postgres server die on me.  It left a ton of sockets
quasi open.. ( my understanding of socket states is bad... ) :

results of netstat look like this for many pages:

<<<
tcp        1      0 localhost:1446          localhost:5432          CLOSE_WAIT
tcp        1      0 localhost:1445          localhost:5432          CLOSE_WAIT
tcp        1      0 localhost:1444          localhost:5432          CLOSE_WAIT
tcp        1      0 localhost:1443          localhost:5432          CLOSE_WAIT
tcp        1      0 localhost:1442          localhost:5432          CLOSE_WAIT
>>>

Now, if I restart the deamon, and try to connect to localhost 5432 it
complains.  and sais I am not allowed :(

<<<
$ telnet localhost 5432
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
<<<

I dont understand this, but more over, is there a way just to tell the TCP
stack to dump those old sockets?


Thanks for any help,

-N
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