>If the client has gone away (for what ever reason), and the server program
>is still there with the sockets open (don't know if the sockets really WERE
>open, we had to reboot the box, <gasp>), is there anything I can do to write
>a utility to convince, persuade, bully the server to get the heck off my
>system, so I can do backup?

<PLUG>
MiniSoft's client server products (ODBC/32, MiddleMan, FrontMan, NFT) have
a "Server Console" application that will display the available listeners
(servers), what port they are using, a list of the clients that are active
with the MPE logon information they provided, and the cumulative CPU time
the client process has used.

You can drop a single user, a single server (and all its users), or the
entire job.

An MPE command line utility lets you; list the processes, stop the job if
no one is on, or stop the job even if users are active.  This utility can
be run interactively or batch.  It sets vars indicating the number of users
and if the conditional job stop was activated.
</PLUG>
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