Bug 17300 – Docs lack code example of sending metalog USR1 or USR2

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description Stephen Boulet 2003-03-11 08:22:01 UTC]

The docs in the install guide say that, for metalog, "you can send metalog a
USR1 signal to temporarily turn off this message buffering."

How to send a USR1 signal isn't described, and googling only finds other
confused people. It looks like the install docs author is just repeating what's
in the metalog docs. Does a "USR1" signal even exist? ;)

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Chuck Brewer 2003-03-11 15:30:25 UTC]

The install does assume you have a working *nix knowledge..however a man signal would've pointed you to kill(1) which has all the info you need, no google needed:)

[Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-05-04 06:57:16 UTC]

I don't work with metalog, but I think the commands are:

killall -USR1 metalog
killall -USR2 metalog

If anyone can acknowledge this (plz check if it's indeed metalog and not meta-log or metalogd or anything else) I (or someone else) can add it to the docs.

[Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-05-06 05:58:22 UTC]

I'll harras some ppl on #gentoo to know if the commands are valid :)

[Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-05-06 10:38:00 UTC]

http://cvs.gentoo.org/~swift/gentoo-x86-install.html has the requested change. Could you please verify if it works for you and if it's clear enough?

[Comment 5 Stephen Boulet 2003-05-06 17:36:10 UTC]

The change is very clear to me. A nice little improvement. Thanks! 
 
-- Stephen 

[Comment 6 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-05-07 02:25:19 UTC]

Committed into cvs.