empkill

EMPKILL(1)                                                          EMPKILL(1)



NAME
       empkill - kill Empress processes gracefully

SYNOPSIS
       empkill pid [pid ... ]

DESCRIPTION
       empkill  allows  a  user  to  kill Empress processes in such a way that
       cleanup is possible.  A 'soft' termination signal is sent to  the  pro-
       cess  a number of times.  If the process remains alive, a 'sure' termi-
       nation is sent to the process and this is logged to a file.

       pid       This is the process id of the Empress process which  must  be
                 terminated.   It  is  normally determined by running the 'ps'
                 system command.

The 'soft' termination signal is determined by the variable
       MSKILLSIGNAL; it is 15 (SIGTERM) by default.

       This signal is sent to the process a number of times as  determined  by
       the  variable  MSKILLRETRY,  which  has a default value of 10.  A sleep
       period determined by MSKILLSLEEP (default  5  seconds)  occurs  between
       retry  attempts.   Only if the process is still alive after the retries
       have been made is the 'sure' termination sent.

       The use of the 'sure' termination is logged to a file found within  the
       directory  specified  by  MSKILLLOGDIR.   By  default  this is the file
       ${EMPRESSPATH}/rdbms/spool/log/<username>.log.


SEE ALSO
       empclean(1)

HISTORY
       Written by Empress Software Inc..   All  material  is  copyrighted  and
       licensed.  Use on non-licensed CPUs is prohibited.



Empress 8.62                 Empress Software Inc.                  EMPKILL(1)