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Table 1: User-generated signals

Number Name Event causing the signal to be sent
1 SIGHUP Sent when you hang up or log out
2 SIGINT Sent on Control-C
3 SIGQUIT Sent on Control-|, also causes core dump for debugging
9 SIGKILL This one you cannot catch or ignore
15 SIGTERM Default signal sent by kill command