Re: Correct way of stopping snmpd

[Niels B. <ni...@ba...>]

Den 21-05-2024 kl. 10:30 skrev Pushpa Thimmaiah:
> Hi All,
> 
> Kindly confirm  that 'kill -9' is valid way to stop snmpd.
> 
> I am writing service script for systemctl  to stop snmpd and would like 
> to understand correct way of stopping the daemon.
> According to Source code agent/snmpd.c ,  SIGTERM (kill -9) , SIGINT 
> (ctl+c) are for snmpd shutdown.

SIGTERM is not kill -9, it is kill -16. kill -9 is SIGKILL

/Niels

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