Questions tagged [sigterm]
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How to set the time interval between SIGTERM and SIGKILL for a user process during Ubuntu 20.04 system shutdown
This is the source code of TestShutdown program:
bool stop = false;
void sig_handler(int signal)
{
printf("receive signal %d\n", signal);
fflush(stdout);
fsync(fileno(stdout));
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What is the correct way to unconditionally kill a process?
I have two hotkeys for interactively looking up and killing a process on Linux:
bindsym $mod+k exec --no-startup-id \
"ps axo pid,cmd | sed 1d | dmenu -i -l 20 | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill&...
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I wish to kill a service with a "sytemctl kill logstash.service" but SIGTERM is received by the service, instead of a SIGKILL. How do I send SIGKILL?
A new logstash version I'm using can't stop, attempting to connect to Elastic all the time, while it can't (an authentication trouble, I will resolve later).
a sudo systemctl stop logstash.service isn'...
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Java process getting terminated in Redhat by SIGTERM from Systemd
I'm starting a Java process using nohup and & (running it in the background). This process gets terminated frequently. There is no pattern on when it is getting terminated. From the application (...
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xargs nano leads to Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM while xargs less is OK
Scenario:
$ cat t0.txt
t1.txt
$ cat t1.txt
xxx
$ sed -n 1p t0.txt | xargs less
# OK
$ sed -n 1p t0.txt | xargs nano
Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM
dvl-linux64 $ nano --version
GNU nano, version 2.5.3
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Intercepting system signal as a strategy to prevent kill calls from taking effect
As a follow up to this question, I am correct that (4) (quote below) is the farthest I can get ?
in my app (a .NET app which runs as a systemd daemon), intercept the kernel signal sent to the process ...
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Graceful termination of child in systemctl shutdown
I liked SensorSmith answer at Forward SIGTERM to child in Bash, but for my systemctl script, it resulted in a double SIGTERM, because systemctl sends SIGTERM to the parent bash instance AND the child ...
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Strange behavior of bash and SIGTERM with Ubuntu [duplicate]
Here's what happens in Ubuntu (Linux ubuntu 5.3.0-53-generic #47~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 7 13:10:50 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux, bash 4.4.20(1)):
In Terminal, open a window (let's call ...
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rsync (but also other commands) run with nohup gets sigterm
I'm connecting from my computer to a HP UX B.11.31 system and am running some very lengthy there commands using nohup so I can go to sleep and do something else for a few days while they complete.
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Spawn, grep/find, and kill a linux process
I have a basic question which I need help with.
We have a use-case where we want to spawn a process in a different session/process-group i.e. if the parent spawning the process gets a SIGTERM, the ...
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find command killed by signal 15
I have a problem regarding the find command:
I use this line in a script to run around 300 servers and check if a file is present, returns 0 if the file is there and returns 1 if the file is not.
$(...
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What is the delay between SIGTERM and SIGKILL on shutdown?
When a Unix-like system is shut down normally, e.g. using halt, shutdown, poweroff etc. or the GUI equivalents, it will try to exit all processes gracefully first by emitting a SIGTERM signal to them. ...
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Can't create new file with nano, Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM
I found only this question of this subject: Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM: nano cannot edit empty file
I'm configuring my web server. There wasn't any problems earlier and I would like to know exactly ...
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Must SIGKILL (and SIGTERM) be explicitly sent to a specified process?
Reading Gilles' answer,
SIGHUP is about the same as SIGTERM in terms of harshness, but it has a specific role because it's automatically sent to applications running in a terminal when the user ...
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server stuck at the boot process:RECEIVED SIGTERM
The issue is when I try to log in the server using SSh , it's not responding and cannot be pinged. And when I go to the console and reboot the server, its stuck in the reboot process. How Can this ...
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kill command SIGKILL vs SIGTERM [duplicate]
there was a nice write up somewhere on here about...
not using kill-9 all the time which is SIGKILL and explained the reasons for doing so, and then went on to explain an order in which one should ...
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ctrl+c closes terminal window completely - why / how?
I have a process, and when I issue ctrl+c in the terminal, it closes the terminal window completely, anybody know why that might be happening?
This is how the process is now started:
exec "$(dirname ...
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