On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:40:37 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > Neil even proposed ALT + > > SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and > > unmounted. > > Which might or might not work. But note that I was also talking > about applications being in a corrupted state (the database example).
E sends a SIGTERM to all applications. Any well behaved application should shut down cleanly on this. I sends a SIGKILL, but it only affects programs that were so locked up they ignored E, so you have nothing to lose by then. -- Neil Bothwick Weird enough for government work.
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