I have a opensource smtp server project (see here) and I'm trying to figure how to help it die gracefully. After connects fork children to handle the connection. If I kill the perl server and then try to restart it right away I get: bind: Address already in use So I figure one of the child handlers must still be out there somewhere. After a few minutes you can restart the server and everything works normally. What can I do to make the server die more gracefully? I do have this: 
sub CLOSE {
 ## called on INT to clean up a bit
 close(SERVER);
 close $client;
 die 'Exiting on INT';
}

$SIG{INT} = \&CLOSE;

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Should that be enough?

In reply to forking server & bind: Address already in use by jhanna

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