On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 01:45:47PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * jack <[email protected]> [05-30-13 12:14]: > > I have noticed that when I do this, eventually I return to find > > that my ssh connection is still open and working fine, but mutt > > has quit. The prompt says: > > > > Caught signal 15... Exiting. > > > > Is this a bug? What does "signal 15" mean? [...] > > Just guessing but I would say you are timing out the ssh connections > rather than mutt.
He's already said that the SSH sessions remain connected, only mutt has been killed (relevant bit quoted above). To answer the question, signal 15 = SIGTERM, which is what happens when you press CTRL-C (the terminal driver sends a TERM[inate] signal to the active process, usually allowing it to die gracefully). You can also send this signal with the kill command, e.g.: $ ps aux |grep '[m]utt' demartin 21019 0.0 0.1 29440 4208 pts/5 S+ May23 0:10 mutt $ kill -TERM 21019 You should contact the people running the box you rent, and see if they have some watchdog process that kills processes which have been running too long. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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