Jeff Pitman (symbiont@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > I think we'd surprised about the robustness of SIGINT. > > MySQL: > /bin/kill `cat /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid 2> /dev/null ` > /dev/null > 2>&1 That could be easily done in this case by killall/init... > PostGRE: > su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl stop -D $PGDATA -s -m > fast" > /dev/null 2>&1 That, not so much. Bill