[Zodb-checkins] CVS: ZODB3/Doc/ZEO - SIGNALS.txt:1.2

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:52:58 -0400


Update of /cvs-repository/ZODB3/Doc/ZEO
In directory cvs.zope.org:/tmp/cvs-serv1846

Modified Files:
	SIGNALS.txt 
Log Message:
Apply similar changes as ChrisM applied to Zope/doc/SIGNALS.txt.


=== ZODB3/Doc/ZEO/SIGNALS.txt 1.1 => 1.2 ===
--- ZODB3/Doc/ZEO/SIGNALS.txt:1.1	Thu Oct 10 10:48:47 2002
+++ ZODB3/Doc/ZEO/SIGNALS.txt	Thu Oct 10 10:52:58 2002
@@ -1,26 +1,32 @@
-Signals are a posix inter-process communications mechanism.  If you
-are using Windows then this documentation is not for you.
+Signals (POSIX only)
 
-The ZEO storage server process (started with ZEO/start.py) responds to
-signals which are sent to the process id written to the file
-.../var/ZEO_SERVER.pid.
-
-    SIGHUP -  Rotate the log files.
-	      kill -SIGHUP `cat .../var/ZEO_SERVER.pid`
-
-    SIGTERM - Close open storages and sockets, then shut down.
-              kill -SIGTERM `cat .../var/ZEO_SERVER.pid`
-
-    SIGINT  - Close open storages and sockets, then restart.
-              kill -SIGINT `cat .../var/ZEO_SERVER.pid`
-
-The pid file contains two pids: the pid of the parent process and the
-pid of the child process, in that order.  The child process is always
-the actual storage server process.  When using zdaemon (the default),
-the parent is the zdaemon process.  Otherwise (when the -s option is
-used), the parent is the shell (script) that started the storage
-server.
-
-Note that zdaemon forwards signals to the child process.
-(Specifically, it forwards all those signals listed above, plus
-SIGQUIT and SIGUSR1.)
+  Signals are a POSIX inter-process communications mechanism.
+  If you are using Windows then this documentation does not apply.
+
+  The ZEO storage server process (started with ZEO/start.py) responds to
+  signals which are sent to the process id written to the file
+  'ZOPE_HOME/var/ZEO_SERVER.pid'::
+
+     SIGHUP -  Rotate log files.
+
+               kill -HUP `cat ZOPE_HOME/var/ZEO_SERVER.pid`
+
+     SIGTERM - Close open storages and sockets, then shut down.
+
+               kill -TERM `cat ZOPE_HOME/var/ZEO_SERVER.pid`
+
+     SIGINT  - Close open storages and sockets, then restart.
+
+               kill -INT `cat ZOPE_HOME/var/ZEO_SERVER.pid`
+
+  The pid file contains two pids: the pid of the parent process and
+  the pid of the child process, in that order.  The child process is
+  always the actual storage server process.  When using zdaemon (the
+  default), the parent is the zdaemon process.  Otherwise (when the -s
+  option is used), the parent is the shell (script) that started the
+  storage server.  (XXX The usefulness of writing both pids is
+  unclear.)
+
+  Note that zdaemon forwards signals to the child process.
+  Specifically, it forwards all those signals listed above, plus
+  SIGQUIT and SIGUSR1.