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[Brian S. Baker [VIA BBUS] via Alpine-info]

Andrew:

Thank you for that information. I didn’t realize that you could use a dash and then the HUP after the dash. I know that signal nine is only advisable when you don’t have a choice. I’ve had a few times when you have to use a signal line because something locks up and you have to end it

I remember when I was working with Eduardo when he was helping me with Alpine. When we were setting up all of these tokens, there were times when I had to signal my Alpine because I could not exit and that is because whatever master password or authentication strategy was just locking the entire system up. 

I guess the reason why I was using signal nine all the time was because when I was working as an online volunteer, someone would always say that they have to signal nine in a process. I’m glad that you don’t have to do a signal nine every single time and now I understand what the HUP means after the dash: it means hang up, but I didn’t realize that process hangs up like you would hang up a telephone he he he he he 

Have a great weekend, and I believe this one is a long one!

Brian



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> On May 23, 2024, at 6:36 PM, Andrew C Aitchison <andrew at aitchison.me.uk> wrote:

> 

> On Thu, 23 May 2024, Brian S. Baker [VIA BBUS] via Alpine-info wrote:

> 

>> The way you take care of that is you give it a signal 9 kill and

>> this will release the locks process because one of them will be

>> terminated.

> 

> Please only use kill -9 as a last resort.

> 

> If alpine is still running, kill -HUP will be sufficient and will

> allow it to syncronize all open folders and remove locks safely.

> 

> kill -9 can leave files in unknown, unsafe states and destroy data.

> This is as bad as what the locks are trying to avoid.

> 

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> Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK

>                   andrew at aitchison.me.uk