On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 17:29, Michael Neumann wrote: > Btw, does anybody knows why WEBrick needs so long to shut down? Is this > socket related? I'm not sure, but I've seen the same thing on my WinXP box. I ended up putting in something like: trap("INT") { server.shutdown exit } and that seemed to work most of the time... Yours, Tom