Re: SIGQUIT doesn't quit rtorrent?

On Thu, January 18, 2007 21:54, Wallace Winfrey wrote:
> Thinking I'd be smart and ssh into the box from another machine and quit
> rtorrent so as to avoid the hashing when I started it back up, I did
> exactly that and then sent a kill -QUIT signal to the rtorrent process.
> However, I don't think this is doing what I want it to, as it seems to
> just kill the process outright and I wind up going through the hashing
> process again on startup.
>
> Should I be sending another signal to properly shutdown rtorrent in
> these situations or is this a feature request ? I know screen would help
> in these situations, but I'm not usually inclined to run screen on a
> machine I'm sitting right in front of :-)

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: RTFUG, that's why it was written.

Rakshasa