Writing to log file when script is killed

Heiko Wundram modelnine at ceosg.de
Sat Apr 30 16:28:10 EDT 2005


Am Samstag, 30. April 2005 14:26 schrieb wittempj at hotmail.com:
> If you run on unix you can use the signal module to intercept a kill -
> see http://docs.python.org/lib/node368.html for a quick example

You cannot intercept a kill (that's the whole meaning of SIGKILL, rather than 
SIGTERM)... Read up on UNIX signal handling.

But, for the rest: you could intercept SIGTERM, log a message, and raise a 
SystemExit exception. That should do the trick.

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--- Heiko.
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