H7. Administration of Dr.Web Server Version for UNIX® OS with the kill Instruction

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The version of the Server for UNIX OS is administrated by the signals sent to the Server processor by the kill utility.

Use the man kill instruction to receive help on the kill utility.

Below are listed the utility signals and the actions performed by them:

SIGWINCH—log statistics to a file (CPU time, memory usage, etc.),

SIGUSR1—reread the repository from the drive,

SIGUSR2—reread templates from the drive,

SIGHUP—restart the Server,

SIGTERM—shut down the Server,

SIGQUIT—shut down the Server,

SIGINT—shut down the Server.

Similar actions are performed by the switches of the drwcsd instruction for the Windows version of the Server, read Appendix H3.3.