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How to send signal to program run in a docker container?

I have a program run in a docker container with detached mode.

So how to send a signal such as SIGINT to this program?

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Answer

You can use nsenter to get into your container space and send your signal.

PID=$(docker inspect --format {{.State.Pid}} <container_name_or_ID>)
nsenter --target $PID --mount --uts --ipc --net --pid kill -SIGINT <PID of your program inside your container>

More info : http://jpetazzo.github.io/2014/06/23/docker-ssh-considered-evil/

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