Re: Safe to kill sqlturbo process?

Well, I read it in the fact: tbmode -z sends a SIGUSR1 to the process, and if it doesn't want to die, you can try a SIGPIPE. If it's still alive, you should wait respectfully for its death. Val'ry "Timothy M. Hood" <thood29@idt.net> wrote in article <5kmi5j$qlb@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>... > Francis Small wrote: > > > > I'm using Informix Online 5 (HP-UX 9) and am under the impression that > > doing a `kill -9' on an sqlturbo process is a major bozo no-no, and > > can shut the database server down if the process holds a latch or is > > "inside a write call". My question is: is it safe to do a simple > > kill? This sends the SIGTERM signal to the process, which I believe > > is an accepted method of allowing a process to terminate gracefully. > > Use tbmode -z pid > > where pid is the process id of the sqlturbo process. This is the nice > way to kill the process without fear of engine death. > > Tim >