Re: [aclug-L] two minor questions

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Bob Deep wrote:

> On a sun box you can use "kill -9 <pid>" to send signal -9 (SIGKILL) to
> the process, if that fails to do it, you are left with having to
> reboot.  I beleive that plain kill sends signal -15 (SIGTERM) which is
> the "do it nice" shutdown signal where SIGKILL is the "just die and
> forget about cleaning up" signal.

One of the main differences is that SIGTERM can be caught, SIGKILL
cannot.  The other uncatchable one is SIGSTOP (17).

To be caught means that the process can respond to the signal however
it wants (hopefully by freeing memory and closing files in the case
of SIGKILL).

-jeff
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Jeff Schaller, UNIX System Administrator, Learjet Inc.
Phone: 316 946-7255, Fax: 316 946-2809
The above thoughts are mine and are not representative of Learjet.
 9:21am up 7 days, 22:21, 8 users, load average: 0.17, 0.17, 0.16


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