On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:40:37 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote:

> > Neil even proposed ALT +
> > SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and
> > unmounted.
>
> Which might or might not work. But note that I was also talking
> about applications being in a corrupted state (the database example).

E sends a SIGTERM to all applications. Any well behaved application
should shut down cleanly on this. I sends a SIGKILL, but it only affects
programs that were so locked up they ignored E, so you have nothing to
lose by then.


--
Neil Bothwick

Weird enough for government work.