Alright, I have been toying around with this code seen all over the web: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use IO::Socket;

$SIG{CHLD} = sub {wait()};

$| = 1;

$main_sock = new IO::Socket::INET( LocalHost => '192.168.x.x',
                                   LocalPort => 7800,
                                   Listen    => 5,
                                   Proto     => 'tcp',
                                   Reuse     => 1) or die $!;

while ($new_sock = $main_sock->accept()) {
    $pid = fork();
    die "Cannot fork: $!" unless defined($pid);
    if ($pid == 0) {
        # Child process
        print $new_sock "Hello there, it's now ", scalar localtime, "\
+n";
        while (defined ($buf = <$new_sock>)) {
                print "Client said: $buf";
                if($buf =~ /^quit/){
                close $new_sock;
                }
        }
        exit(0);
    }
}

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What I want, is when the word quit comes in, the daemon closes the socket for that connection, and the client hangs up. Right now, it just keeps the connection open, no matter what I do, until the client closes.

ALSO, where can I get info about what is connecting, host/ip , ect.

In reply to Close Socket Force client to quit. by PyroX

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