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, then

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' . When

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 8:22 AM

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 enough,