Re: Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.

2000-06-26 Thread Chris Gray
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:47:43AM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote: > Nope. You will have to understand the "signals" mechanism underlying > all that. kill is just a program that sends a signal to a running > process. Really, it doesn't "kill" anything, it just sends a signal. Interestingly eno

RE: Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.

2000-06-26 Thread Harald Thingelstad
> Boot the machine down to runlevel 1 (single user) and try it again > without X and gnome running it might act differently > > Does your other control key make any difference? > > -- > From: Harald Thingelstad[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 26 June 2000 8:2

Re: Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.

2000-06-26 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Nope. You will have to understand the "signals" mechanism underlying all that. kill is just a program that sends a signal to a running process. Really, it doesn't "kill" anything, it just sends a signal. There are a bunch of signals defined on your system, that you can list with a 'kill -l' . Wh

Re: Ctrl-C and normal kill doesn't work.

2000-06-26 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 10:22:21PM +0200, Harald Thingelstad wrote > This frustrating little problem... > > When having a running process, ctrl-c or kill doesn't work on my system. > You have to use kill -9. > > A simple example: > ping 127.0.0.1 > this process is meant to run as long as you want