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Re: [COLD] Genesis signal handler:

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mon Dec 8 15:56:06 1997 )

Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:43:59 -0700 (MST)
From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com>
To: Chris Gazley <cgazley@vc.mulberry.com>
cc: Cold Stuff Mailing List <coldstuff@cold.org>
In-Reply-To: <19971208112046.59323@vc>

On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Chris Gazley wrote:

>         Could anyone tell me which signal will make Genesis shutdown clean
> from outside the system.  I want to make a daemon script for it since the
> machine i'm running it on may at anytime be rebooted due to the idiotic
> nature of my friend Paul.  I know how to start her up but the page an
> www.cold.org didn't really tell alot about what each signal did as far as
> core stability was concerned.  Thanks in advance.

     http://www.cold.org/Software/Genesis/docs/

I believe kill -QUIT is the one you want--it is basically the same as
calling shutdown() from ColdC.

-Brandon