On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:26:01AM -0500, Tim Johnson J. wrote:
> 
> I am running amanda 2.5.1p1-2.1 to a disk array on a debian backup
> server and all of a suddenly it is not refusing to
> run via a cron job or starting in the backround, it never initiates
> data transfer (ie: /usr/sbin/amdump DailySet1 &) the only error messages
> (see below) I get are the signal 15. I have to assume that the signal
> 15 is a kill signal, is this correct ?
> 

IIRC, 15 is SIGTERM, the default sent by the kill(1) command.

Again, IIRC, a reasonable description of the meaning of its
receipt by a process is "some other piece of software has
requested that you kill yourself".  Thus if it causes the
process to exit, the process was "TERMinated".

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