Hung Port

[Perry Hoekstra <dutchman@uswest.net>]

Greet the sun all,

There were statements made in the past couple of days on how you do not
need to reboot a Linux box unless you upgrade kernels.  I have a port
that is hung.  If I do a netstat -a | grep 7001, I can see something
listening on it.  Well, I can't start my application server without
clearing that port of whatever dead process is still hanging onto that
port.  Any ideas on how to clear the port of the process without
rebooting the box.  By the way, I cannot identify whatever is parked on
the port, the netstat just gives:

*.7001               *.*                0      0     0      0 LISTEN 

-- 
Perry Hoekstra
Consultant
Talent Software Services
dutchman@mn.uswest.net

If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is
no woman around to hear him... is he still wrong?