Charles, To kill the Flume job AND invoke the shutdown hooks for a clean shutdown, use kill -HUP or kill -TERM. Any other signal will kill the JVM without invoking the shutdown hooks.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Charles Robertson < charles.robert...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm playing with Flume for the first time, so perhaps I'm misunderstanding > something, but I can't find in the documentation any command to stop or > kill or a Flume job - other than shutting the whole machine down, which is > a bit of overkill when you're tinkering and changing things. > > Can anyone enlighten me, please? > > Thanks, > Charles >