No, there is no way to free a port. You mentioned that Tomcat comes
up after a reboot, implying that you are running Tomcat as a service. If
that is the case, the process name is jk_nt_service.exe. Unless you have
another process that is constantly trying to grab that port, Tomcat is still
running - NT does free the ports when the process dies.
Also, 2000 (and I believe NT) ship with netstat. Using "netstat -a"
you can determine which ports are currently in use (and their state).
Randy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Turoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 7:34 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Restarting Tomcat on NT
>
>
> I've already tried that. Tomcat is dead, alright. Is there a way to
> explicitly free up a port on NT?
>
> At 06:04 PM 07/02/2001, you wrote:
> >Maybe you didn't really kill off Tomcat, but just the DOS
> box it was running
> >in,... (I've seen it happen after closing the DOS box, but not after
> >Ctrl+C'ing the program.)
> >
> >Try bringing up the Task Manager, and make sure there aren't
> any instances
> >of a "java" image name running.
> >
> > -- Bill K.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steven Turoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 3:30 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Restarting Tomcat on NT
> > >
> > >
> > > I am having problems restarting Tomcat on NT. After a
> reboot of the
> > > machine, Tomcat starts without a problem. However, if I stop
> > > Tomcat and
> > > then attempt to restart, I get the following error:
> > >
> > > FATAL:java.net.BindException: Address in use: bind
> > > java.net.BindException: Address in use: bind
> > > at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Native Method)
> > > at
> java.net.PlainSocketImpl.bind(PlainSocketImpl.java:390)
> > > at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(ServerSocket.java:173)
> > > at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(ServerSocket.java:124)
> > > at
> > > org.apache.tomcat.net.DefaultServerSocketFactory.createSocket(
> > > DefaultServerSocketFactory.java:97)
> > > at
> > > org.apache.tomcat.service.PoolTcpEndpoint.startEndpoint(PoolTc
> > > pEndpoint.java:239)
> > > at
> > > org.apache.tomcat.service.PoolTcpConnector.start(PoolTcpConnec
> > > tor.java,
> > > Compiled Code)
> > > at
> > > org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.start(ContextManager.jav
> > > a, Compiled Code)
> > > at
> org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.execute(Tomcat.java:202)
> > > at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.main(Tomcat.java:235)
> > >
> > > I'm running Tomcat on port 8080. After I receive the above
> > > error, a netstat
> > > -a yields:
> > >
> > > TCP cx628443-b:8007 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
> > > TCP cx628443-b:8007 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
> > > TCP cx628443-b:8080 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
> > > TCP cx628443-b:8080 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
> > >
> > > So, for some reason, stopping Tomcat does not free up the
> > > port. I must then
> > > reboot my machine to run Tomcat again. I'm using Tomcat 3.2.1
> > > and Classic
> > > VM (build JDK-1.2.2-001, native threads, symcjit).
> > >
> > > Ideally, I'd like to fix the problem, however, I'm also
> > > interested in any
> > > solution that doesn't require rebooting my machine. I'll be
> > > switching to a
> > > Linux-Tomcat platform soon, but need a solution for the meantime.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
>
