ONLINE needs to be 'killed'

If you come to the conclusion that you have to kill ONLINE, do it by sending signal 1 (SIGHUB):

Unix$>$ ps a | grep gra_main
Unix$>$ kill -1 $pid$
The first command searches the ONLINE process id (image /home/experiment/Spectra/bin/gra_main_vme).

If ONLINE receives signal 1, it performs a 'normal' end. Stdout is re-directed to online.log, motors are stopped, the device list is written to disk and a dump file is created that contains the current queue (./online_crash.dmp). The dump file is automatically loaded during the startup of the next session. You may inspect ./online.log to check whether everything worked fine.

To make sure that everything is in order re-enter the command:

Unix$>$ ps a | grep gra_main

The image gra_main should be stopped and also temp_gra_main_temp, a process that runs the message window.

If signal 1 does not terminate ONLINE, use signal 9.