AIX Kill help

[BJZeak]

I remotely connect to an AIX machine to update files on a regular basis however every once in a while I loose a connection without AIX dropping the session. If I login the session is still active ... at this point I have a huge amount of work that I was going to save but was interrupted by a phone call. If I terminate this session with a kill -9 it will die without creating a recovery file.

So my question: is there any way to kill the process so it generates a recovery file? Normally if a session terminates AIX drops the session creates a recovery file and emails my user account. As long as the session remains open the file is in limbo and nothing is saved (as far as I know). Perhaps there is a temp file located somewhere for VI?

 

[p5wizard]

So, use [tt]kill -1[/tt] (Hangup) or [tt]kill -6[/tt] (Abort).
A [tt]kill -9[/tt] is immediate, vi cannot respond to that signal. Don't use [tt]kill -9[/tt] unless that is your only option left!

Next, [tt]ex -r[/tt] will show your preserved file(s)
[tt]ex -r filename[tt] will recover your editing session. Don't forget to save your file!

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[BJZeak]

Thanx I will have to try that next time this happens ... this time I just patiently waited for the nightly Cron spawned backup which gracefully disconnects all users and it thankfully created the recovery file I needed so didn't loose my work after all. The old saying of "SAVE OFTEN" is also kicking me. Sigh!

I have a script that takes down all of my sessions/processes in one go which I use especially when there is a network connection failure like this:

UserName=MyAIXUserName
rusure=N

for CurrentUser in `whoami`; do
echo " "
done

if [ "$UserName" = "$CurrentUser" ]
then
read rusure?'Are you sure you want to exit all sessions?(y/n)'
if [ "$rusure" = "Y" ] || [ "$rusure" = "y" ]
then
echo Exiting all Sessions for $UserName
sleep 1
nohup kill -9 -1 > /dev/null
fi
else
echo --- Exit all Sessions is not valid for $CurrentUser
fi

but because, as you confirmed, -9 doesn't allow VI the chance to do anything this script destroys my files

If I recall correctly -1 signals to stop all processes that are owned by the $CurrentUser

so I will try a modifed script with just kill -1 instead of kill -9 -1 and see if that works.