[CHUKWA-468] Shutdown Chukwa creates core.[pid] files

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.1.2, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Component/s: Scripts

Environment

Redhat EL 5.1, Java 1.6

• Assignee: Eric Yang
• Reporter: Eric Yang
• Created: 31/Mar/10 18:44
• Updated: 13/Apr/10 19:56
• Resolved: 13/Apr/10 19:56

Description

Chukwa scripts are using kill -TERM for shutdown chukwa processes. This creates a lot of unwanted core.[pid] file in the CHUKWA_HOME directory. Ideally, we should use kill -1 to shutdown Chukwa processes.