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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:55:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Jacques Hugo <jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za>
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Subject: Re: Killing a socket
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On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Jacques Hugo wrote:

> Hi there ...
> 
> I don't know if this can be done ... but anyway ;)
> 
> If I connect to a server with ssh, that server gets
> my request and lets me through after the auth.
> 
> If I kill that connection, then on netstat -a it 
> shows that that connection is still ESTABLISHED.
> 
> How can I kill that socket.  Is there a util to 
> do this or can it be done by hand?

It'll die by itself when the other end realizes you've gone AWOL.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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