Gracefully shutdown Nginx | /dev/notes

When a barman calls 'time' at the pub, they are letting you finish your drink. Unfortunately the standard command to pull down Nginx on Ubuntu Precise is a little more aggressive. When it calls time, it snatches your unfinished beer away right there and then. Thankfully there's a really simple way to socialise Nginx. It is by calling the nginx server command directly with the -s argument instead o

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“-s lets you send signals to the Nginx master process and Nginx behaves differently whether it receives a quit signal versus a term signal.”