Gentle shutdown feature

[Phil Mayers]

On 27/06/14 16:35, John Wobus wrote:

> There are other similar sites that use the same "stop and
> start frequently" strategy.  I would naturally be concerned
> if the daemons had trouble ever reaching normal state.

Yes, we do this, and I agree. It's really peculiar for a standard 
shutdown signal - INT or TERM - to result in the daemon not coming 
immediately back into service on the next startup.

Would recommend making it a different signal e.g. USR1 or an OMAPI command.