Re: [cobalt-users] (no subject)

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Scott w wrote:

> > > There are a couple of connections that are stuck for a customer.  Is 
> >there
> >a
> > > way to kill/reset the connections?
> > >
> >What port are they connected to:
> >restart that service?
> >Gerald
> 
> They are connected to FTP.  Wouldn't I need to restart inet to restart FTP?  
> What is the command to restart inet?  I know it is probably one that I will 
> kick myself on, but I can't seem to find it...

That won't do anything anyhow, inetd will only reread it's config file....

Given there is a 300 second ftp timeout, they should get 'unstuck' after a
few minutes, in what way are they 'stuck'? You know that netstat will
often show old closed connections for a while of they didn't close cleanly
, right? this is meaningless.....

Only lines ending with 'ESTABLISHED' are in fact really connected, lines
ending with FIN_WAIT,  CLOSED are already more or less gone,
they will vanish eventually, the kernel keeps the info around for a
while...(In case a stray lost packet shows up after the fact)

gsh