I use ncpmount to connect to netware servers here at work. The trouble is, after an hour or so the connection just goes comatose and won't work. If I try to unmount it, I get a failure to disconnect.

So I wrote a little script that kills all the ncp processes, and I figured that had it fixed. WRONG!

If I do a netstat, I still have 1 connection listed for every ncp connection I've made (including the ones I've killed). So after a few days I can end up with around 20-30 connections. Doing a netstat with the -p flag (even as root), there is no process associated with the connection, and ps -A turns up no ncp processes.

If I try to do /etc/init.d/networking restart, I get an error that there are still shares mounted. If I do a force-reload, it reloads the networking, but the connections are still there.

The only way I've found to clear the connections so far is a reboot, and that just won't do.

Which brings me to my question: is there a way to manually kill a udp or tcp connection that persists even when the process is dead?