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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: exiting on signal 15
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 06:54:03 GMT
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In <2tgpcsINN5im@uwm.edu> knier@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Robert Knier ) writes:
> I'm running FreeBSD1.1 (RELEASE) and when I shutdown the system, I
>have the following error message appearing (sometimes it is displayed multiple
>times).
>syslogd: exiting on signal 15
This is normal behaviour on shutdown - signal 15 is SIGTERM, which is
sent to all processes by init when the system is shut down. (10 seconds
after sending a SIGTERM, init sends a SIGKILL to all remaining
processes. The 10 second window is supposed to give processes enough
time to shut down before the system goes down.)
I have sometimes noticed that the message appears 3 times - I haven't
been worried enough about that to find out why.
>see zic(8) or link /etc/localtime
> zic is not in the manual pages - what sould I link /etc/localtime too?
You need to link /etc/localtime to an appropriate timezone file, which
you will find in /usr/share/zoneinfo
On systems here it looks as follows:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 45 May 2 02:26 /etc/localtime@
-> /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Africa/Johannesburg
(You will want to choose an appropriate file for your timezone.)
Geoff.
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