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Two great signals

February 4, 2011 by Igor Drobot Leave a Comment

The best uses I’ve found for the SIGSTOP and SIGCONT signals are times when a process goes haywire, or when a script spawns too many processes at once.

Usage Examples for both signals:

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kill -SIGSTOP [pid]
kill -SIGCONT [pid]

kill -SIGSTOP [pid] kill -SIGCONT [pid]

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Filed Under: Bash, Debian, Linux Tagged With: kill, sigcon, sogstop