On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 08:47:31PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > I noticed today that not everything responds to SIGTERM anymore... > SIGKILL, SIGSTOP and SIGCONT still work, but SIGTERM does not.. in some > cases. I don't know about the specific software you mention, but UNIX programs can install custom handlers or choose to drop some signals, like TERM. I think it's normal for login shells to ignore most signals. -- Michael Heironimus