Here's what strace shows during a master off operation; kill(27239, SIG_0) = 0 kill(27239, SIGTERM) = 0
This isn't the whole trace just the lines relating to 'kill()' I believe SIG_0 means stop processing signals (cant find doc on that one), then the SIGTERM (15) Anthony -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stevenson, Charles Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:05 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/
