problem using signal module

[Ken Guest]

On Fri, 2001-08-24 at 10:32, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2001, Ken Guest wrote:
> 
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> It's really simple: you can't catch SIGKILL. Period. You might want to try
> using SIGTERM instead. SIGTERM is the normal 'kill -15' (-15 is the default),
> and SIGKILL is 'kill -9', which immediately stop execution of a program.
> 
thanks, Ignacio - just wanted a way to close down my server cleanly,
so I'll try for trapping SIGTERM instead then.

k.