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Signal 15 ?????

 
Ted Flanders_1
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Signal 15 ?????

What is a signal 15? My system crashed the other day and the last line in the OLDsyslog.log says "going down on signal 15".
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Stefan Farrelly
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Re: Signal 15 ?????


15 is a SIGTERM; Terminate, either issued by a kill command or an interrupt, eg. CTRL-C. Basically its a nice tidy way to kill a process/job.
Im from Palmerston North, New Zealand, but somehow ended up in London...
John Palmer
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Re: Signal 15 ?????

Ted,

This is normally the last line in 'Oldsyslog.log' when you do a shutown/reboot. You should see other similar messages from envd and inetd.

Are you sure that the system crashed?

Regards,
John