Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2001 01:46:52 +0200 | From | Kurt Roeckx <> | 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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