On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Loris Rinaldo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think there should be anther option for the nohup command, in order to > quit a command previously launched: > > nohup OPTION > --quit: terminates previously launched nohup command) > > I launched a 100GB copy command with nohup and I can't figure out how to > cancel this operation.
In exactly the way one stops any other Linux or Unix program - with the "kill" command. The manual page will explain how to use it (obviously, you need to select a signal other than SIGHUP). One uses "ps" to find the right process ID. When a process is doing disk I/O, it can't be interrupted within an individual I/O request. However, most programs split large I/O tasks up into lots of smaller chunks (perhaps 32KB reads and writes, for example) so this is not very likely to pose a problem in your case. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
