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Re: [ic] kill -TERM on freebsd
Quoting interch (interch@web3.valley-internet.com):
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> The restart script won't work for me on freebsd. Kill -TERM doesn't seem
> to do the job. Kill -KILL works fine. Since the intent is to kill
> interchange and restart it instead of using a -HUP and rereading config
> info, why is this not set to -KILL by default anyways? Especially since
> perl programs seem to be notorious for not catching signals correctly.
I bet your FreeBSD is on a "virtual server" from Verio or Iserver. Is
that correct? I have observed that the TERM signal doesn't work on those
servers, but it should work fine on real FreeBSD.
We don't use KILL because that cannot be trapped. It is a last resort
because it doesn't allow for graceful termination. If it happens
in the midst of a database update you might not like the result.
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