Questions tagged [signals]

Question 1

I have a standard job management system that lets me run shell scripts as jobs, and kill them on command or when they take too long to run. Some of my jobs turn around and run Docker containers, in ...

Question 2

Every Monday at 9AM UTC something sends a HUP signal to my node.js process (and I think HUP is being sent to all processes, not just mine). How do I find which process sent the HUP signal to my ...

Question 3

TIL that docker kill means kill in the sense of "make it dead", as opposed to the POSIX sense of "send a signal". We have several containers that we need to send a SIGHUP to in ...

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I have bunch of services responsible for running action consumed from the queue. I want to be able to restart services gently (without interrupting action which're already running) It can be solved ...

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While running FreeBSD a long time ago, there was a default feature which logged when a process received one of the fatal signals, like SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGKILL, etc. and was terminated because of that....

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I have a process in a docker container that is supposed to log a thread dump (on stdout) when shut down. However when docker stop is called on it, no output happens. It seems that either the process ...

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I have been using Ctrl+C on most terminals to easily cancel the line I was writing and open the way for a new line. (I'm not talking about killing a running bash script, but just opening a new blank ...

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Background I've been asked to create a systemd script for a new service, foo_daemon, that sometimes gets into a "bad state", and won't die via SIGTERM (likely due to custom signal handler). ...

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script: #!/usr/bin/env bash set -e set -u set -x set -o pipefail hosts=( host1 host2 ) for host in ${hosts[@]} do ssh $host 'pids=$(ps -aux|pgrep -f "/usr/bin/nmon"); kill $pids; wait $...

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The other day I experienced a halt in my python application with sigabrt, but I knew that the init should send a sigkill signal. I'm curious what's the difference between them, if any? Can someone ...

Question 11

Recently one of our server failed and wont start services. I looked over the /var/log/messages and found this: Dec 27 00:53:48 localhost apcupsd[3413]: apcupsd FATAL ERROR in linux-usb.c at line 609 ...

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I have this script: #!/bin/bash set -e #WHAT SHOULD I WRITE HERE? sleep 60 # this is for testing #java ... | logger # this is what will be in the real script I want to be able to kill myscript and ...

Question 13

I have a: single instance of Apache Kafka (2.9.2-0.8.1.1) installed from the source, using the default configuration (server.properties etc.), Zookeeper (3.4.5+dfsg-2) stand-alone, installed from the ...

Question 14

I have a simple bash script: echo "Starting" function sigint { echo "sigint" } function sigterm { echo "sigterm" } trap sigterm SIGTERM trap sigint SIGINT while true do sleep 2 echo "-" ...

Question 15

Processes running in Linux ignores signals (INT,QUIT,TERM) except KILL. Programs such as top, tail -f, sleep and etc, do not respond when pressing Ctrl+C and thus have to stop them from another ...

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I'm trying to connect to GPRS network through a serial port connected GSM modem. When I call /usr/sbin/pppd call <peer_name> from the command line, It correctly receives and handles Ctrl+C from ...

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I am trying to log the details of the programs that where failed due to the limit cap defined in the limits.conf. My initial plan was to do it using the audit system. The idea was to track the system ...

Question 18

I have recently been contracted by a client of mine to facilitate the wireless communication of his "home" offices and a secondary site. The primary site is the top two floors of a 5-story office ...

Question 19

Is there an industry standard for how strong a Wifi signal needs to be in order to have a reliable connection? For example, maybe Wifi endpoints are designed to the specification that they connect ...

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I surely hope this question is not a duplicate of another; I had difficulty finding a cut and dry solution for this on my own, so I thought I might have some luck sharing it with the Hive Mind of ...

Question 21

So I have a shell script that daemonizes celery, and creates a bunch of workers running as a daemon. I would like to have a way to restart the celery task when the underlying source gets changed since ...

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I hope that I have asked this question in the right topic. Basically I use BT (In the U.K.) and I have problems with my router receiving a weak signal in certain rooms of the house, which, therefore ...

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I have a many daemon processes that sometimes get hung up during a db transaction, thus blocking other queries ( and causing general havoc ) In order to debug, I've added some code in the daemon ...

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I was briefly shown the networking setup for a rural hospital campus. Some of the things I was told or shown are: There is an 802.11b signal, broadcast over an omnidirectional antenna on a tower. This ...

Question 25

We're experiencing unexpected JBoss crashes on a semi-regular basis. JBoss 5 is running on RHEL6 in this case. I believe this is related to a sigusr1 sent to the JBoss process. The JBoss server logs ...

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I modified the parameter maintenance_work_mem in postgresql.conf in my production environment. I'd like to know if I send a SIGHUP to the postgres process it will reload that variable, and if it's ...

Question 27

By transparently I mean forwarding of: stdin, stdout and stderr standard signals (SIGHUP or SIGINT would be great for a start) As an example, consider these invocations of a (pointless) local and ...

Question 28

So, I've been playing with a unicorn deployment on my personal server. There are a variety of reasons behind this - one of them being that I didn't particularly want to have to compile my own version ...

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I have a series of scripts that are being killed ($? says exit code is 137, which implies a kill -9 scenario). I need to know what process killed them. Is there a way to find out this information?

Question 30

I'm using svn+ssh and I see a number of: Killed by signal 15. during a svn up. Any ideas way?

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This is a followup to this question. I've run some more tests; looks like it really doesn't matter if this is done at the physical console or via SSH, neither does this happen only with SCP; I also ...

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Is there a way to find out the origin of a signal sent in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (SIGTERM etc.)? I'm regularly trapping a TERM in an application and I have no idea where it is coming from.

Question 33

Here is the information displayed by the wireless router (see end of post). The problem is that my netbook does not get any signals from the router if moved more than 3 feet (yup, three feet) away ...

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For PostgreSQL 8.3 and later, what are the processes that make up the server and that respond to a query? What signals do the various processes respond to and what effect do the signals have? What ...

Question 35

In this answer on SO, I gave an example that should have used a -SIGCONT signal in a job submitted to at. However, I found that the process that I had stopped with -SIGSTOP did not continue. When I ...

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Questions tagged [signals]

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Logging Linux processes which exit because of a signal?

Process inside docker container not receiving signals?

Ctrl+C no longer working to get a new blank line in bash

Configure buggy systemd service to terminate via SIGKILL

ssh remote command: Killed by signal 15

whats the difference between sigkill and sigabrt? [closed]

Server keep restarting after reaching 'starting web server'

How to write a bash script that traps SIGTERM and kills the process and all sub-processes immediately

Apache Kafka 0.8.1.1 clean shutdown not working

ubuntu upstart never killing my process

Linux: Process ignores signals

Ctrl-C is ignored by pppd when put in a shell script

Logging violations of rules in limits.conf

Wireless link frequency choice (900Mhz vs 5.8Ghz) for 2-3km distance

Industry standard for minimum Wifi signal strength?

How to mask out wireless by blocking a neighboring WiFi Access Point [closed]

kill -HUP is not working with celery daemon

Wifi Signal Strengths [closed]

Is it generally safe to use SIGCONT on processes?

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Unexpected jBoss crash and auditing signals

Modifiying parameters in postgresql.conf and SIGHUP

transparent signals over ssh

Unicorn retains same PID when receives USR2?

Process that sent SIGKILL

I get Killed by signal 15. when I'm using svn

Do background processes get a SIGHUP when logging off?

How to find out the source of a POSIX signal

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PostgreSQL processes and the signals to which they respond

How can I use symbolic signals in an at job?

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