From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <01f201c3b345$91db75a0$b9844051@insultant.net> From: "boyd, rounin" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <86ptfg3ehq.fsf@gic.mteege.de> Subject: Re: [9fans] Shutdown service MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:16:17 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 92df22d2-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > is it possible to shutdown a service which listen on a port at > runtime or is a reboot needed? I try to disable for example > tcp143. I move tcp143 to _tcp143 but the port 143 still stays open. off the top of my head listen(8) probably holds the port open and then hands it off to the script. so you'd have to give it a knudge and then there is the 2 * MSL (iirc) that the port is 'unusable'. carefully kill and restart listen after moving the script? seems to me to be a bit to ugly for my liking.