I've recently experienced two incidents where a Telnet session has ended up in a hung state, that is, after an abortjob, the session persisted and tied up a database. Only after a reboot was I able to clear the session. What causes a session to hang like this? Is there anything I can do to prevent it? Or, what action could I take (besides a reboot) to clear the session. In attempting to clear it, I tried ABORTJOB, I stopped the INETD job, I stopped Network services, I tried a PM program to KILL specified PIN's. Nothing worked. Any insight would be appreciated. Mike Gabriel Rockwell Collins