Kill -4 generates an illegal instruction trap and core dump. I have always heard that kill -1 (hangup) is the "nicest" way to kill an errant process, and kill -9 (kill) is the last resort.
Larry Hiscock Western Computer Services -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stevenson, Charles Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [U2] [UV] MASTER OFF <port> I've found emperically kill -4 [pid] *seems* to nicely kill uv pocesses, but I'm not sure why. Sometimes I have to repeat the command several times before success. I kinda assumed MASTER OFF must do a kill -4, but have nothing to back that up, just that UV processes seem to disappear nicely, including locks. 'man kill' doesn't even tell me what '4' is. I knew once, but forgot. fwiw, cds -----Original Message----- . . . I was always led to believe that MASTER OFF is a cleaner way to drop Universe sessions rather than killing the sessions at unix level. Mike Farrant IT Manager, Premdor UK ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
