init problem with Intrepid

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Thu Oct 30 20:47:59 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:22 -0400, Rashkae wrote:
> Why not?
> 
> I know that gdm stop is the proper way to do it, no argument there,, but
> so long as you refrain from using the -9, killall just sends a nice
> gentle Sigterm, which is a perfectly legit way of stopping a process

To stop a process yes, but who knows what else the stop script does that
the process knows nothing about. I am too lazy to check, but anyone who
is interested can and draw their conclusions :)





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