Death of a process

[mrn]

When a process dies or is killed is it logged anywhere?

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

http://www.airport-parking-site.co.uk/

 

[khalidaaa]

Not as far as i know!!!

but we used to kill a process during a database backup job and i was receiving a mail to root saying that this process was killed.

Regards,
Khalid

 

[bambock]

I believe if you kill a process with the "-4" signal it will dump a core and is logged into the errpt.

Ethan

 

[DSMARWAY]

how are you killing the process ?

because i guess your doing a ps -ef | grep PID or similar
then kill the PID ( so you can say its logged to the screen when you kill it )
or if in a script , you can log the ps output to a file and then kill the PID

just a thought

 

[mrn]

I'm not killing the process it's either dying or someone/something else is killing it; which is why I was asking if it's logged anywhere.

I guess I'll have a dig round in auditing and see if anything is available.

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

http://www.airport-parking-site.co.uk/