[OpenAFS] useful process signals

Jason Edgecombe jason@rampaginggeek.com
Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:17:45 -0400


Derrick Brashear wrote:
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>
> On 8/25/07, *Jason Edgecombe* <jason@rampaginggeek.com 
> <mailto:jason@rampaginggeek.com>> wrote:
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>     That is very useful to know.
>
>     It doesn't appear to be in the fileserver man page. Is it documented
>     anywhere else?
>     What other signals can be used? Where can I find out about them?
>
>
> XCPU is USR2 on NT, and POLL on HPUX, fwiw.
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> For the fileserver, TERM runs some minor instrumentation over the list 
> of descriptors.
>
> For logging, in any server
> signal TSTP ups the debug level by powers of 5 (1, 5, 25, 125 etc)
> signal HUP clears debug level
>
> most processes die on TERM; the fileserver instead uses QUIT (the 
> bosserver knows this)
>
> that's about it.
Thanks!

Jason