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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:30:03 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        White Hat <pigskin_referee@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Meaning of: kill -USR2
Message-ID:  <20070831192932.P15197@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <380497.82982.qm@web34407.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <380497.82982.qm@web34407.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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> I have seen 'kill -USR2' used in some scripts;
> however, I am unable to find out exactly what it is
> referring to. The man page for 'kill' does not list
> any 'USR2' flag or signal, unless I am reading it
> incorrectly.
because it's user defined signal number 2 - the program taking it does 
what it want (or exactly - what programmer want)



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