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luqo33
Asked: 2016-08-08 12:47:07 +0800 CST

NGINX ignores stop/start/restart signals while reporting no errors

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These are my NGINX processes:

root@ip-192-168-0-12:/etc/nginx/sites-enabled# ps aux | grep nginx
root      4758  0.0  0.0 102208  2780 ?        Ss   Jul25   0:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx
www-data  5585  0.0  0.0 105868  7048 ?        S    Jul26  18:12 nginx: worker process
www-data  5586  0.0  0.0 105868  6972 ?        S    Jul26  18:07 nginx: worker process
www-data  5587  0.0  0.0 102208  2444 ?        S    Jul26   0:07 nginx: cache manager process
root     13190  0.0  0.0  12828  1008 pts/2    S+   20:13   0:00 grep --color=auto nginx

Now let's stop NGINX:

root@ip-192-168-0-12:/etc/nginx/sites-enabled# service nginx stop
nginx stop/waiting

Let's see if the processes still exist (omg they're still there):

root@ip-192-168-0-12:/etc/nginx/sites-enabled# ps aux | grep nginx
root      4758  0.0  0.0 102208  2780 ?        Ss   Jul25   0:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx
www-data  5585  0.0  0.0 105868  7048 ?        S    Jul26  18:12 nginx: worker process
www-data  5586  0.0  0.0 105868  6972 ?        S    Jul26  18:08 nginx: worker process
www-data  5587  0.0  0.0 102208  2444 ?        S    Jul26   0:07 nginx: cache manager process
root     13230  0.0  0.0  12828  1008 pts/2    S+   20:16   0:00 grep --color=auto nginx

Then if I run service nginx start, the grep command would report exactly the same output - one master process, two workers and a cache manager.

What is happening here? Why cannot I just stop NGINX?

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1 Answers

  1. It looks like service nginx stop sends a SIGTERM to the nginx process, which does not guarantee to stop it.

    As suggested in the comment above, in your /etc/init.d/nginx can you check the content of the do_stop() function and see if you have:

    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PID --name $NAME. You may want to change the timeouts there (30, 5 in that example).

    Also, check the outcome of the command nginx -s stop (fast shutdown) or nginx -s quit (graceful shutdown), and see if the processes mentioned above are still running.

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