In article <[🔎] 20080705063643.GB24276@p12n.org> you wrote: > Why are all of you talking as though sending SIGTERM were not the > standard way to tell a process to save its state and exit gracefully? Thats not the point. It is a quesion of sequence. When you get the killall5 sigterm, then everybody else also gets it. Especially maybe your file service server. So you might not able to save. Gruss Bernd