[cod] start/stop script

[Christian Gerbrandt]

'kill -9' should be the last resort.
You are sending a SIGKILL to the process id, which will prevent any cleanup
operations from the process.
All in-kernel operations are killed, which could lead to data corruption.
You should only use 'kill -9' if no other kill signal has been successfull.

-----Original Message-----
From: escapedturkey [mailto:escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com] 
Sent: 13 December 2009 13:08
To: Call of Duty server admin list.
Subject: Re: [cod] start/stop script

 From my understanding -9 makes sure the process is killed vs. just hanging
around. If you allow the process to kill itself cleanly, it may just hang
and you can end up with multiple dead processes -- that is my experience.

Jarkko Mäntylä wrote:
> On 10.12.2009 08:36, escapedturkey wrote:
>> Which ideas? The kill -9 -1?
>>
>> If he's running the game server as a user (in usermin) the kill -9 -1 
>> is perfect for clean-up, otherwise you'll have multiple processes 
>> running every-time you start the game server. Did I miss something?
>>
>> Also, the original poster of this thread and I know each other. :)
>>
> 
> Using SIGKILL (-9) prevents any process to do any clean-up, you only 
> use it with broken programs. If the user is only running gameservers 
> that all need to be stopped at the same time then using -1 group might 
> be good idea.
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