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Re: [ic] kill -TERM on freebsd
That probably explains it. I'm running interchange in a jail environment
on one of our servers.
Chris
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Mike Heins wrote:
> Quoting interch (interch@web3.valley-internet.com):
> >
> >
> > 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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