SUMMARY: How to free up a port?

NBP (nina@jcrew.com)
Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:45:59 -0500

The only thing that fixed this was a reboot.

NBP wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> When I do a netstat -a I see multiple instances of nntp holding
> up a port with a CLOSE_WAIT state. Is there a way to free
> this up? I'm running Solaris 2.5.1 and the nntp in question
> is Collabra. I discovered this because I can't start up the
> Collabra server because of a busy port.
>
> TIA,
> N