On Wednesday 06 April 2005 12:44 pm, Richard Crawford wrote: > I did a port forwarding to port 9990 on my Linux computer to mount a remote > SMB share. After I unmounted the share, I wanted to use port 9990 for > another purpose, but was told that it was still busy. How can I get my > computer to let go of this port so I can use it again? Try killing (SIGTERM) the ssh process id (the one that initiated the forwarding session). kill -15 ssh-process-id HTH, Jorge
