How to force a TCP Port to unbind

ninjabadger

I just killed a process (RoR WEBrick) which i had ran as a Daemon. I cant find a better shutdown way that kill.

The problem is that the port i ran the application on is showing as still in use when i try to start the serveragain. Is there a way to force the old process off this port?

thanks
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hermanng · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:34 am Post subject:

Hmm, the gentoo way of running a daemon is to have an appropriate file in /etc/init.d/. The shutdown of theses daemons is normally done by start-stop-daemon, which sends by default a signal 15 to the daemon process. Which signal did you send ? You surely had a look if the process really died, did you ? Also, tcp connections need some time, before they actually vanish - normally about 2 minutes (but it's configurable) IIRC.

hth
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