[Dxspider-support] stuck sockets

[vic]

Nope don't work, not even a reboot so I know something is left over somewhere.  I can change ports and all works again but not any PREVIOUSLY USED port numbers.
Strange.



On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:16:26 +0100
Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> vic wrote:
> > Hey Dick, where are you?
> > Where are the defunct sockets stored when dxspider crashs???
> > Dxspider will not start again and gives an error like this:  
> > starting listeners ...
> > Internal port: localhost 27754 using IntMsg
> > IO::Socket::INET: Address already in use
> > Could not create socket: Address already in use
> >  at /spider/perl/Msg.pm line 443
> >         Msg::new_server('ExtMsg', 192.168.0.2, 7350, 'CODE(0x846e18c)') called at ./cluster.pl line 400
> > Could not create socket: Address already in use
> > 
> > 
> > Where can I find and delete the offending dev character or such.  I don't find it in /var/run.
> > Netstat does not show it either...
> > 
> 
> There is no concept of "defunct sockets" in linux (at least for the 
> purposes of dxspider and the way it uses them). So either you have a 
> copy of dxspider running (MOST likely) or you have something else using 
> that port (which seems pretty unlikely - but is possible).
> 
> $ ps ax | grep cluster
> 
> will tell you if you have something still running.
> 
> $ killall cluster.pl
> 
> should stop it
> 
> $ killall -9 cluster.pl
> 
> WILL stop it (if it there).
> 
> Dirk
> 
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vic <ke4lkq at doramefa.us>