automatically doing some cleaning-up by the process when the systems shuts down

[bharath venkatesh]

handling SIGTERM allowed me to do cleaning up  while the system shuts down
but as i mentioned previously how can my  process know if the   system was
not shut down properly previously

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:36 PM, bharath venkatesh <
bharathv6.project at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi ,
>     thanks Gabriel ... but  r u sure if it is SYSTERM ?or is it SIGTERM ?
> I am not aware of any SYSTERM signal
> .. if it is SYSTERM please tell me more about it .. as google search is
> not helping ..
>
> and also is there some way for my process which is running as a daemon to
> know that system was not shut down properly previously ....eg a  power
> failure .. so that my program can do necessary steps if cleaning up is not
> done  during its last termination
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar>
> wrote:
>
> > En Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:51:03 -0300, bharath venkatesh
> > <bharathv6.project at gmail.com> escribió:
> >
> > >       my programs runs as daemon and it does some logging .. when
> > system
> > > shuts down .. which may be done manually . i  want my process  do some
> > > cleaning up automatically such as writing in to the log file when  the
> > > process terminats   before the system shuts down
> >
> > handling the SYSTERM signal?
> >
> > --
> > Gabriel Genellina
> >
> > --
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> >
>
>
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