nicest way to kill python process running on linux?

[Helmut Jarausch]

Alex Hunsley wrote:
> I'm running a monitoring script under linux written in python. It's 
> nohup'ed so that I can log out and it will continue running happily and 
> so on, but sometimes I need to kill the script before editing the source 
> and relaunching it.
> Question is, what's the nicest way to kill the python process under 
> linux? Is a simple 'kill [process-id]' the nicest way to do it, or is 
> there a different signal I should send it?
> 

It's a matter of convention, e.g. xinetd uses the USR2 signal.
Unless you use kill -9  which can't be handled by the application
anything is fine if the user knows what signal to send and your script
catches the signal to stop gracefully.


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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany