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Old 04-14-2005
gam_server conspiracy

On Fedora Core 3 Heidelberg, every now and then the process gam_server steps out of line and needs to be killed.

Doing so generally makes it behave but every now and then killing it just accomplishes a very brief behaviour improvement.

I was looking around on the net and although I forgot what it is actually for, nobody proposed a way to prevent this misbehaviour.

Open Source or not, I'm a PHP programmer and have a background of Turbo Pascall and will have a hard time interpreting C, and C++ code since I'm not familiar with its grammar.

Before I confirm my conspiracy theory (that Red Hat needs this for some kind of reason) I would like to know if any of you have more information on this process and the reason of its random misdemeanor.


Thank you in advance for your time and efforts.


With kind regards


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SYSTEMD.KILL(5) 						   systemd.kill 						   SYSTEMD.KILL(5)

NAME
systemd.kill - Process killing procedure configuration SYNOPSIS
service.service, socket.socket, mount.mount, swap.swap, scope.scope DESCRIPTION
Unit configuration files for services, sockets, mount points, swap devices and scopes share a subset of configuration options which define the killing procedure of processes belonging to the unit. This man page lists the configuration options shared by these five unit types. See systemd.unit(5) for the common options shared by all unit configuration files, and systemd.service(5), systemd.socket(5), systemd.swap(5), systemd.mount(5) and systemd.scope(5) for more information on the configuration file options specific to each unit type. The kill procedure configuration options are configured in the [Service], [Socket], [Mount] or [Swap] section, depending on the unit type. OPTIONS
KillMode= Specifies how processes of this unit shall be killed. One of control-group, process, mixed, none. If set to control-group, all remaining processes in the control group of this unit will be killed on unit stop (for services: after the stop command is executed, as configured with ExecStop=). If set to process, only the main process itself is killed. If set to mixed, the SIGTERM signal (see below) is sent to the main process while the subsequent SIGKILL signal (see below) is sent to all remaining processes of the unit's control group. If set to none, no process is killed. In this case, only the stop command will be executed on unit stop, but no process be killed otherwise. Processes remaining alive after stop are left in their control group and the control group continues to exist after stop unless it is empty. Processes will first be terminated via SIGTERM (unless the signal to send is changed via KillSignal=). Optionally, this is immediately followed by a SIGHUP (if enabled with SendSIGHUP=). If then, after a delay (configured via the TimeoutStopSec= option), processes still remain, the termination request is repeated with the SIGKILL signal (unless this is disabled via the SendSIGKILL= option). See kill(2) for more information. Defaults to control-group. KillSignal= Specifies which signal to use when killing a service. This controls the signal that is sent as first step of shutting down a unit (see above), and is usually followed by SIGKILL (see above and below). For a list of valid signals, see signal(7). Defaults to SIGTERM. Note that, right after sending the signal specified in this setting, systemd will always send SIGCONT, to ensure that even suspended tasks can be terminated cleanly. SendSIGHUP= Specifies whether to send SIGHUP to remaining processes immediately after sending the signal configured with KillSignal=. This is useful to indicate to shells and shell-like programs that their connection has been severed. Takes a boolean value. Defaults to "no". SendSIGKILL= Specifies whether to send SIGKILL to remaining processes after a timeout, if the normal shutdown procedure left processes of the service around. Takes a boolean value. Defaults to "yes". SEE ALSO
systemd(1), systemctl(1), journalctl(8), systemd.unit(5), systemd.service(5), systemd.socket(5), systemd.swap(5), systemd.mount(5), systemd.exec(5), systemd.directives(7), kill(2), signal(7) systemd 237 SYSTEMD.KILL(5)