Wait a minute, wait a minute, I didn't write this bit.

I am a senior religious leader,  I can get another senior religious leader
to sign off on things and I can probably get written authority from the
Deputy head of state if that's good enough, but I'm not particularly in
favour of "kill -9" myself.  My code is waaaay up above and is probably
unnecessary as I didn't spot the reversal.

Be that as it may, as pre3 stands right now, I can break it so it WON'T die
without a "kill -9" (I'll hopefully fix that sometime today assuming the
users don't break something ELSE *makes threatening gestures*), but I'd
rather do a clean kill or even a pkill.


DS>>--- testing/eval_tools.sh.org       Wed Apr  7 05:13:26 2004
DS>>+++ testing/eval_tools.sh   Wed Jul  7 20:41:10 2004
DS>>@@ -476,9 +476,9 @@
DS>>    if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
DS>>        SNMP_SAVE_TMPDIR=yes
DS>>             if [ "x$OSTYPE" = "xmsys" ]; then
DS>>-              COMMAND="kill -9 $pid"
DS>>-            else
DS>>               COMMAND="kill.exe $pid"
DS>>+            else
DS>>+              COMMAND="kill -9 $pid"
DS>>             fi
DS>>        echo $COMMAND "($pfile)" >> $SNMP_TMPDIR/invoked
DS>>        $COMMAND > /dev/null 2>&1
DS> 
DS> Argghhhh!!!!!
DS> Is it *really*, *really*  necessary to use "kill -9" here?
> 
DS> This particular incantation is the spawn of satan, and should
DS> not be used without written authority (in triplicate) from the
DS> head of state and at least two senior religions leaders.

AB>It looks like the kill -9 will only be used if the process can not be 
AB>stopped using a kill -TERM by the STOPAGENT and STOPTRAPD functions.

AB>This means that the Solaris V880 system is not able to kill the agent or 
AB>trapd using kill -TERM.

AB>BTW, the kill -9 is not new to eval_tools.sh.  Only the MSYS checking is.



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