It is generally not recommended that you kill processes with anything
stronger than HUP, which is (I believe) what kill sends by default.
Stronger signals will cause all backends to kill themselves because of
paranoia about data corruption.
If the process does not respond to that, then there
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:58:46AM -0500, Thomas F.O'Connell wrote:
It is generally not recommended that you kill processes with anything
stronger than HUP, which is (I believe) what kill sends by default.
kill usually sends TERM by default, not HUP.
(I say usually only because I haven't
Oops. That's right. I was relying on memory, which is less reliable
than man. Fortunately, I always consult man before killing... :P
-tfo
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On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:58:46AM -0500, Thomas F.O'Connell wrote:
It is generally not recommended that you kill processes with anything
stronger than HUP, which is (I believe) what kill sends by default.
kill usually
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 02:00:11PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Fuhr) wrote:
kill usually sends TERM by default, not HUP.
(I say usually only because I haven't personally examined every
implementation of kill in existence.
