Re: Why doesn't kill work?

Jonathan Berry wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:52:22 -0500, Robert Locke <rlocke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 21:04 -0500, David Liguori wrote:

In another thread a user having problems with yum killed it.  I am
curious how he accomplished that.  When I run yum (or any other command,
for that matter), it stalls, and I stop it with ctrl-z, the following
happens:

First question, why are you stopping it with Ctrl-Z?? Ctrl-Z puts it to
sleep into the background. Why not use Ctrl-C which is the intended
approach?

[snip]

This is kind of an aside, but if yum is downloading packages, Ctrl+C
will not kill it.  Instead, yum will switch to a different mirror to
download the packages from.  This is handy if it happens to pick a
slow mirror.  Just hit Ctrl+C and it will try another one (assuming
you have it set up to use multiple mirrors).  This makes it a little
harder to kill, though, during this stage.

Jonathan

Well, it still can work - you just need to hit it several times in a row - worked for me at least - just yesterday.
Maxim.