thx for helping, i did what you suggested, but im not quite shure what to do with the obtained information ... i did a lsof right after forking with the pid of the child and got that:


COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
camtest.c 18397 web39 cwd DIR 0,23 2048 263424456 /var/www/web39/html/cgi-bin
camtest.c 18397 web39 rtd DIR 0,23 1024 37650436 /
camtest.c 18397 web39 txt REG 0,23 1061700 37766238 /usr/bin/perl
camtest.c 18397 web39 mem REG 0,23 67364 38240776 /lib/tls/libresolv-2.3.6.so
camtest.c 18397 web39 mem REG 0,23 17840 38240762 /lib/tls/libnss_dns-2.3.6.so
camtest.c 18397 web39 mem REG 0,23 38372 38240764 /lib/tls/libnss_files-2.3.6.so
camtest.c 18397 web39 mem REG 0,23 126656 37733628 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.0.0
camtest.c 18397 web39 mem REG 0,23 19764 386252810 /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/Socket/Socket.so
camtest.c 18397 web39 mem REG 0,23 96276 37749838 /usr/lib/perl5/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.so
camtest.c 18397 web39 mem REG 0,23 111304 110919694 /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/POSIX/POSIX.so
camtest.c 18397 web39 mem REG 0,23 32664 236503042 /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/Encode/Encode.so
camtest.c 18397 web39 mem REG 0,23 21868 38240738 /lib/tls/libcrypt-2.3.6.so
camtest.c 18397 web39 mem REG 0,23 1245488 38240734 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.6.so
camtest.c 18397 web39 mem REG 0,23 85010 38240774 /lib/tls/libpthread-2.3.6.so
camtest.c 18397 web39 mem REG 0,23 145136 38240754 /lib/tls/libm-2.3.6.so
camtest.c 18397 web39 mem REG 0,23 9592 38240752 /lib/tls/libdl-2.3.6.so
camtest.c 18397 web39 mem REG 0,23 15640 386301956 /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/IO/IO.so
camtest.c 18397 web39 mem REG 0,23 88164 38240648 /lib/ld-2.3.6.so
camtest.c 18397 web39 0r REG 0,23 12980 376176656 /usr/share/perl5/HTTP/Request/Common.pm
camtest.c 18397 web39 1u IPv4 3040810374 UDP server2.alido.de:44066->ns1.vpsadmin.de:domain
camtest.c 18397 web39 3w REG 0,23 1554 263423062 /var/www/web39/html/cgi-bin/test.err
camtest.c 18397 web39 4w FIFO 0,7 3040810341 pipe

is 'device 3040810374' the handle i look for? how can i close it? i dont have mod_perl, its a cgi-scipt w/o any open db.

In reply to Re^2: fork/web-cgi: how do i close all open sockets in deamon? by .rhavin
in thread fork/web-cgi: how do i close all open sockets in deamon? by .rhavin

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