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- From: davek@informix.com (David Kosenko)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Nice kill of tbtape -c ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.163416.148@informix.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:34:16 GMT
- References: <1hs91aINN7gn@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
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- Poul Pedersen writes:
- >
- > How is it possible to stop 'tbtape -c' if it is running
- > in the background. (Terminal turned off and SIGHUP trapped.)
- >
- > The tbtape command must be stopped in a nice way.
- > Is it possible to use 'kill -xx' ?
-
- Since tbtape is coded to catch an interrupt and terminate cleanly,
- sending a kill -INT (-2) should do the job quite nicely.
-
- Note that any log currently in the process of being backed up will
- complete before tbtape actually terminates.
-
- Dave
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