John E. Perry wrote:
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2007-06-30 19:13, John E. Perry wrote:
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(Thanks, Ken, I did know better than to follow Daniel's advice on kill -9, although I have in the past gone straight from kill to kill -9. I'll have to read up on kill to see what -1 is). 1 is a HUP -- "kill -l" will print a list of all signals.
Ah. So, using kill -l, I see SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGQUIT, SIGTRAP, SIGABRT, and SIGKILL, all of which seem to be closely related. So I still have some reading to do to understand it and know what to do (as opposed to following blindly the advice of people who maybe really know what's going on :-).
Wait a minute! there's no description of kill with no parameter. and man, as usual, has no useful information.
The information you seek doesn't exist. You can't send a signal without sending any signal. IOW the "kill" command would be better named "signal" because what the command does is send a signal of your choice. The signal is most often some sort of kill signal, which probably led to its name, but it can also send "wake up" or "resume" signals and others as well. It always seems strange to type "killall -SIGCONT <procname>" to resume a process... Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org