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Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 10:28:22 -0500
From: John Duncan <jddst19+@pitt.edu>
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Bill Harrison wrote:
> 
> What does a message from the kernel mean when it "exits on signal 1"
> 
> Thanks
> Bill

It means you caught a SIGHUP, a hangup signal. Other things generate
hangups as well. The application usually exits fine with those. 

On a different note, for others who read this message, why do SIGTERM
and SIGKILL work nicely, but a SIGQUIT, which sounds nice and all, dump
core most of the time?
-jd