Christopher Spears wrote: > What is the difference between > > kill 1, SIGNAL > > and > > kill 9, SIGNAL ? > > By reading books and talking to people, I figured out > that kill 1 is the HUP (hang up signal) and kill 9 is > the kill signal. Don't they do the same thing (i.e. > terminate a program)? I was told that kill 1 is a > "nicer" way to end a program than kill 9.
Actually SIGTERM is the "nicer" way to end a program and if that doesn't work then use SIGKILL. SIGHUP is usually used to tell a program to reread its configuration files and start anew. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
