crontab hanging won't die on SIGTERM in jail

[Michael Scheidell]

Stef Walter wrote:
> # mkdir -p /etc/rc.conf.d
> # echo "sig_stop=SIGQUIT" > /etc/rc.conf.d/cron
>
>   
from lots of man pages, and old POSIX docs, they say that to 'reboot' or 
stop a unix system you send a SIGTERM to everything.
the 'critcal' systems that need to stay up during reboot/haltsys (init!, 
getty) or anything that needs to do cleanup are supposed to trap (and 
ignore SIGTERM)

once the non critical systems are stopped, THEN you send the SIGQUIT.

I can't see anything critical about cron running during a reboot or 
haltsys.  SIGQUIT should be the default for it anyway.

did you verify that this works for you?

that after setting for hours /etc/rc.d/cron stop works?

(I had one sitting overnight, worked.

yes, I want to know why.. I suspect its some combination of something 
rc. calls (something in my /usr/local/etc/rc.d dir)

but don't know why it 'hangs around'.  maybe one of those rc scripts 
sets something bad.

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