Re: [Hardhats-members] Dealing with FileMan hangups

2005-06-03 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
You're right of course. I should have said SIGKILL, but I've got into a habit of trying to kill processes with kill -15 instead of kill -9, and I guess I wasn't thinking. Anyway, my most recent project has involved creating a kind of daemon process running under Taskman, and I naturally

Re: [Hardhats-members] Dealing with FileMan hangups

2005-06-03 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Comments below. -- Bhaskar Gregory Woodhouse wrote: You're right of course. I should have said SIGKILL, but I've got into a habit of trying to kill processes with kill -15 instead of kill -9, and I guess I wasn't thinking. [KSB] You're doing the right thing. 15 is normally recommended

Re: [Hardhats-members] Dealing with FileMan hangups

2005-06-03 Thread Greg Woodhouse
This is neither here nor there, but when I'm *going home* from work, I walk up the stairs out of the BART (subway) station, cross the street and take the bus (yeah, and I know that's a signal, too, but I won't go there). Anyway, I catch the 15 to get home, but the 9 bus stops there, too (and we

RE: [Hardhats-members] Dealing with FileMan hangups

2005-06-02 Thread Cameron Schlehuber
, 2005 2:09 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Hardhats-members] Dealing with FileMan hangups When Kernel or FileMan hangs there are several ways to deal with the problem from just wait to Ctrl C abort. I wonder what the least damaging tactic would be. Ctrl C; restart Cache

Re: [Hardhats-members] Dealing with FileMan hangups

2005-06-02 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
An interesting thing I discovered under DSM is that there is no way to trap a forced exit (e.g., to do cleanup in a way analogous to a finally clause in Java). Under Unix, of course, there are signals that cannot be caught or ignored (like SIGTERM), but it is also possible to send a catchable

Re: [Hardhats-members] Dealing with FileMan hangups

2005-06-02 Thread smcphelan
: [Hardhats-members] Dealing with FileMan hangups An interesting thing I discovered under DSM is that there is no way to trap a forced exit (e.g., to do cleanup in a way analogous to a finally clause in Java). Under Unix, of course, there are signals that cannot be caught or ignored (like

[Hardhats-members] Dealing with FileMan hangups

2005-05-30 Thread Thurman Pedigo
When Kernel or FileMan hangs there are several ways to deal with the problem from just wait to Ctrl C abort. I wonder what the least damaging tactic would be. Ctrl C; restart Cache(or other software), reboot the system, or other options? Thanks, thurman