Re: [leafnode-list] Cannot obtain lock file, aborting.

["Michael O'Quinn" <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15 Nov 2002, Clemens Fischer wrote:

> "Michael O'Quinn" <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > Well now, that's a different matter.  I would try gently killing
> > that process first "kill -HUP 4832".  If that doesn't work then chop
> > off it's head "kill -9 4832" If THAT doesn't kill it, something's
> > likely wrong with your system.
> 
> you must verify that this process responds to a HUP and does the right
> thing.  many programs take a variety of signals making them do
> different things.  your recipe is much too simple.  eg. most of the
> time a daemon will reread its configuration but stay alive and well on
> a HUP.  if you then -KILL it, you may make things worse, if it wasn't
> designed to handle it.  i mean, instead of KILL the man page might
> tell you which signal to send to get it to die gracefully.

This territory has already been covered.

Unless I'm completely blowing smoke, "kill -HUP" IS the way to gracefully
stop fetchnews.

Care to comment Matthias?

Michael


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