[Gllug] Requesting a graceful halt for a sleeping package

[Tethys]

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Chris Bell writes:

>If I then press ^C it appears to do a graceful halt, cleans up the
>logfiles, removes the "Archive Update in Progress" lockfile, and stops.
>
> [...]
>
>If I kill that PID the ftpsync appears to stop dead without cleaning up,
>and will not re-start even if I attempt to clean up manually.
>   Any suggestions please?

Send it a SIGINT (kill -INT $pid), which equivalent to pressing ctrl-C.

Tet
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