^c (Shift-6 c) usually sends a Ctrl-C signal, which kills the ping.
-Mike MacIsaac
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Beesley, Paul <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> We are running SLES10 under z/VM.
> At the weekend, I logged onto the Linux guest via a z/VM 3270 session, and
> made the mistake of entering a PING command with no count parameter so it
> just PINGed forever.
> I have no SSH access so was unable to logon anywhere else to kill the
> process. Eventually I just did a #CP LOGOFF and re-booted the guest as
> nobody else was logged on, but this is obviously a drastic solution.
>
> Today I have managed to get into vi which obviously doesn’t work on a 3270
> screen. I can no find no way out of it. If I do #CP DISC and log back in
> again it’s still in vi.
> There must be a way to interrupt a Linux command (like Ctrl-C on a putty
> session) but I can’t find it.
>
> Any offers?
> Thanks
> Paul
>
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