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Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Daniel Zilli wrote:
> 
>> I'm start working with runit and found it great. I would like to
<snip>
> What's also important is that the TERM signal will actually cause the
> process to shut down. A few badly behaved programs don't do that - mysql
> in particular.

But you can use a finish script to kill them (or send them their correct
shutdown signals).  I find that I need to do that for the nfsd threads
after stopping mountd (with rpc.nfsd -- 0).

> It's common practice to have programs log to stderr rather than via syslog.

Unless you use socklog (recommended).

R.