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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 01:46:52 +0200
From: Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron-office.nl>
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Subject: Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:38:30AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:20:24PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > 
> > the shutdown scripts
> > include "kill -15 -1; sleep 2; kill -9 -1". The "-1" means
> > "all processes except me". That means init will get hit with
> > SIGTERM occasionally during shutdown, and that might cause
> > weird things to happen.
> 
> -1 mean everything but init.

Oh, maybe you mean killall5 -TERM?

Which would send a SIGTERM to all processes but the one in his
own session.

(Hey look, you wrote that manpage.)


Kurt

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