Clearing a port

From: Jonathan Williams (jonathw@shubertorg.com)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 16:46:46 EDT


It's a simple enough question. We are running Tru64 5.1 and 5.1a on ES40 and
ES45 machines. Is there a command to clear out a port? Basically, what
happened today was that one of our production pieces of software goes through a
certain port. This application got kind of hung up, and we couldn't get it
started again. The reason turned out to be that the last person who accessed
this program was still connected to the port. We had to actually go to that
person's machine and turn it off to disconnect them from the port so that our
application would come back up.

Is there a command that would have disconnected this computer from this port
without having to track down the computer? I'm sure there is...seems like
something people might need to do now and again. TIA

Jonathan Williams
Unix Systems Administrator
The Shubert Organization, Inc.



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