From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jens Knoell" Subject: Re: Hello, I have port busy after server die. Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:08:37 -0700 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <013701c3f1a3$fff25260$6f00000a@jenswin2k> References: <20040213.3002000.1658383148@linux.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Gustavo Guillermo , linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Gustavo Guillermo wrote: > Hello everyone, I have a nice question, I ran a WebServer, and after 8 > days hangs and die, but TCP port wasn't released. > I know that the solution is restart the system, but I see it in other > times and this server can't be restarted. > > There is some C function or command or anything that can release this > port? The solution is actually to find out what makes the server die in the first place. The port gets released as soon as the last instance of the service gets killed. Since you didn't specify what software you're running I can't get more specific than that. Jen