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, then you ctrl-c it to > get your statistics. > However, ctrl-c doesn't work. No reaction whatsoever, the program just > keeps on running. > So I have to ctlr-z it to reclaim my command line, then kill -9. > Normal "kill" is likewise. No reaction, no error messages, the process > just keeps on running. > It affects all programs as far as I can see. > I'm using debian 2.1 (slink. Long story and a slow connection.) with the > latest updates, gnome-icewm and bash. > Sure gnome is marked experimental here, but.. > Where could the problem be? > Kernel? It's a customized debian-source-2.0.38 kernel, but the most > exceptional thing about *that* is ip-masquerading support. > > I'm numbskulled here, so any support appreciated. >
It may be an stty problem; if you type stty -a at the command prompt you will see the settings for your tty; one of them is "intr", which denotes the key used to send a SIGINT to applications. It should be: intr = ^C If yours is not then that would explian it, but then you'ld have to figure out how it got that way. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services