Closing Ports

[Darin Perusich]

i don't believe that there is a way to close a tcp port once it's been 
opened, you have to wait for it to time out. i've looked for such a tool 
in the past but have never found anything.

Robert Romito wrote:
> Hi. 
> Does anyone know of a command to close an open port?
> 
> I've been playing with Tomcat.  When I start Tomcat, it opens the port 
> it's configured for and then crashes without closing the port.  Tomcat 
> complains that the port is already open the next time I try to start it.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 


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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com