Klaus Knopper wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:49:20PM +0100, John J. Allen wrote:
> > Klaus Knopper wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > In /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt:
> > >
> > > runcmd "Sending all processes the TERM signal..." kill -15 -1
> > > sleep 5
> > > runcmd "Sending all processes the KILL signal.." kill -9 -1
> > >
> > > For obvious reasons, it should instead be:
> > >
> > > runcmd "Sending all processes the TERM signal..." /sbin/killall5 -15
> > > sleep 5
> > > runcmd "Sending all processes the KILL signal.." /sbin/killall5 -9
> > >
> >
> > No, the script is correct as written, the -1 causes all processes from MAX_INT to
>2 to be killed.
>
> Yes, it kills everything. Including the shell script (which might trap the
> signal) and processes spawned by init. Therefore you get messages like
> "INIT: No processes left in this runlevel". This is NOT correct.
>
> From the manpage of killall5:
> killall5 is the SystemV killall command. It sends a signal
> to all processes except the processes in its own session,
> so it won't kill the shell that is running the script it
> was called from. Its primary (only) use is in the rc
> scripts found in the /etc/init.d directory.
>
> This is the way it is supposed to be, and common in other unices.
>
> Regards
> -Klaus Knopper mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://home.pages.de/~knopper
> "Disk Space... The final frontier!"
>
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I stand corrected.
What we need is a list of things to check from the base RedHat distribution each time
a Mandrake distribution is done.
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