2010/1/4 Paul Allen Newell <pnewell@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > I though "control-C" was an immediate kill of whatever was running and was > wondering why yum didn't stop when I tried to kill it. > It's an interrupt, which could be blocked or it might be on a different queue. You should be able to background yum and kill it straight away: Ctrl+z kill %1 -c -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines