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SIGTERM is one of the POSIX mandated signals; it indicates that the process should terminate, which is also the default action for SIGTERM.

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How to process SIGTERM signal gracefully?

Let's assume we have such a trivial daemon written in python: def mainloop(): while True: # 1. do # 2. some # 3. important # 4. job # 5. sleep mainloop() and we daemonize it using start-stop-daemon which…
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Is it possible to capture a Ctrl+C signal (SIGINT) and run a cleanup function, in a "defer" fashion?

I want to capture the Ctrl+C (SIGINT) signal sent from the console and print out some partial run totals.
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In what order should I send signals to gracefully shutdown processes?

In a comment on this answer of another question, the commenter says: don’t use kill -9 unless absolutely necessary! SIGKILL can’t be trapped so the killed program can’t run any shutdown routines to e.g. erase temporary files. First try…
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How to handle a SIGTERM

Is there a way in Java to handle a received SIGTERM?
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Apache server keeps crashing, "caught SIGTERM, shutting down"

This just started happening three weeks or so ago. The content of my website hasn't changed, it's just a phpBB forum using MySQL as a back end. Nothing has changed in well over a year but recently, every two days or so, the server just shuts down…
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Python: What is the default handling of SIGTERM?

What does Python do under the covers by default if it receives a SIGTERM but there is no signal handler registered for it?
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Catching SIGTERM vs catching SIGINT

In Node.js servers, is there any difference between catching SIGTERM vs catching SIGINT? I thought processes were not supposed to be able to prevent shutdown upon a SIGINT? process.once('SIGINT', function (code) { console.log('SIGINT…
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How to detect pending system shutdown on Linux?

I am working on an application where I need to detect a system shutdown. However, I have not found any reliable way get a notification on this event. I know that on shutdown, my app will receive a SIGTERM signal followed by a SIGKILL. I want to…
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Capture Heroku SIGTERM in Celery workers to shutdown worker gracefully

I've done a ton of research on this, and I'm surprised I haven't found a good answer to this yet anywhere. I'm running a large application on Heroku, and I have certain celery tasks that run for a very long time processing, and at the end of the…
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how can I kill a Linux process in java with SIGKILL Process.destroy() does SIGTERM

In Linux when I run the destroy function on java.lang.Process object (Which is true typed java.lang.UNIXProcess ) it sends a SIGTERM signal to process, is there a way to kill it with SIGKILL?
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Win32 API analog of sending/catching SIGTERM

Under POSIX OS there is signal API that allows to send a signal to process to shut it down with kill and you can catch it with sigaction and do what you need; However, Win32 is not POSIX system, so: How can I handle shutdown events that may come,…
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How to gracefully shut down (SIGTERM) an Apollo Server instance?

The actual HTTP server instance can be killed with server.close(callback), but I'm not sure what will happen with any pending WebSocket operations (mutations or queries being run through WebSockets). Since http.Server doesn't really know anything…
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SonarQube exits with 143

I am trying to Setup SonarQube on Centos 6 VM with 6GB of RAM. The process always exits with 143. On analysis I found that the JVM is being sent a SIGTERM signal and thus exiting. There are no core dumps and dmesg is also quite unhelpful. I also…
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shell script to spawn processes, terminate children on SIGTERM

I want to write a shell script that spawns several long-running processes in the background, then hangs around. Upon receiving SIGTERM, I want all the subprocesses to terminate as well. Basically, I want a "master process". Here's what I got so…
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Docker bash shell script does not catch SIGINT or SIGTERM

I have the following two files in a directory: Dockerfile FROM debian WORKDIR /app COPY start.sh /app/ CMD ["/app/start.sh"] start.sh (with permissions 755 using chmod +x start.sh) #!/bin/bash trap "echo SIGINT; exit" SIGINT trap "echo SIGTERM;…
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