#4418: killall -SOMESIGNAL broken by psmisc-23.2
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Reporter: ken@… | Owner: lfs-book
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.4
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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I'm sure I mentioned this some months ago, either in October or November,
but I'm not sure on which list and I can't find it in the archives. I
reverted to psmisc-23.1 for my own builds. I use killall -HUP (or
whatever) fairly frequently, e.g. to save state in a browser before
rebooting. With 23.2 that breaks (any named signal appears to generate an
error).
Apart from general usage, I used to stop syslogd when rotating my logs
with
{{{
/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
}}}
but that became ineffective in 23.2 (daemon was still running, log did not
get properly rotated). I think Bruce's view was "wait for the next release
of psmisc", but since we are now heading for our own release ...
Hopefully, someone using 23.2 can try killing a named process to see if it
gets killed (in which case this ticket can be closed as invalid), or else
report the error message.
Looking at the BLFS book just now (pulseaudio) I see that I mention
killall there.
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