Andrew: Thank you for that information. I didn’t realize that you could use a dash and then the HUP after the dash. I know that signal nine is only advisable when you don’t have a choice. I’ve had a few times when you have to use a signal line because something locks up and you have to end it
I remember when I was working with Eduardo when he was helping me with Alpine. When we were setting up all of these tokens, there were times when I had to signal my Alpine because I could not exit and that is because whatever master password or authentication strategy was just locking the entire system up. I guess the reason why I was using signal nine all the time was because when I was working as an online volunteer, someone would always say that they have to signal nine in a process. I’m glad that you don’t have to do a signal nine every single time and now I understand what the HUP means after the dash: it means hang up, but I didn’t realize that process hangs up like you would hang up a telephone he he he he he Have a great weekend, and I believe this one is a long one! Brian Sent from my iPhone > On May 23, 2024, at 6:36 PM, Andrew C Aitchison <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Thu, 23 May 2024, Brian S. Baker [VIA BBUS] via Alpine-info wrote: > >> The way you take care of that is you give it a signal 9 kill and >> this will release the locks process because one of them will be >> terminated. > > Please only use kill -9 as a last resort. > > If alpine is still running, kill -HUP will be sufficient and will > allow it to syncronize all open folders and remove locks safely. > > kill -9 can leave files in unknown, unsafe states and destroy data. > This is as bad as what the locks are trying to avoid. > > -- > Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Alpine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info
