Topic: Open connection for days now

[Thor Anthrax]

I have a problem with an open connection:

[root@broe1452 /root]# netstat -tp
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp       69      0 10.0.0.1:2085           e-smith.com:ftp         CLOSE_WAIT  7075/perl

Kill 7075 won't close the connection somehow

Any ideas what this could be?

[Rob Hillis]

You can try kill -9 7075 - that's about the deadliest kill signal...

Use with caution - this signal should cause the process to die *regardless* of whether it wants to or not... there is no "clean" process shutdown...

[Thor Anthrax]

I found out it has something to do with system monitor:

ps aux | grep 7075
root      7075  0.0  0.2  2868 1536 ?        S    Oct30   0:51 perl /usr/sbin/sysmonitor start

Is this normal??? Should I close the connection or not?