Re: Solving "Address already in use"

[Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:38:11AM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> Michael Wood wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:34:04PM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Is there a better way, these days? Can I forcibly "un-use" the port?
> >>If not, can I, at the least, find out what process ID's the kernel
> >>thinks have it open?
> >>   
> >>
> >It will time out after a while.
> >
> How long is "a while"? We waited three days before giving up and 
> rebooting the server.

I can't remember, but I'm pretty sure it's of the order of minutes
(maybe hours?) but not days.

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>