Small question please?

[hermouche]

Hello,

Under the gnome terminal i used it to search an info about bootchart ot the Repo:
yum info bootchart

OK, now since it took too long, i wanted to stop the search by pressing "Ctrl-C" but doesn't work, which command should we use to stop this type of command without closing the xterminal?

Thanks

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[ppesci]

may be (in another terminal):

killall -15 yum

of it doesn't work

killall -9 yum

HTH

[hermouche]

Originally Posted by ppesci

may be (in another terminal):

killall -15 yum

of it doesn't work

killall -9 yum

HTH

Thanks ppesci,

Which means that there is no special command for stopping yum from the same terminal, we should open a new one and kill it from there!!

red

[gthill]

Originally Posted by hermouche

Thanks ppesci,

Which means that there is no special command for stopping yum from the same terminal, we should open a new one and kill it from there!!

red

You could kick the process into the background, then you can use the same terminal.
ctrl z will suspend the process, then the command 'bg' will place it in the background.
You can then use 'kill %1' which will kill the 1st process in the background.
The command 'jobs' will show you which commands are in the background and its number

[gordon@lap1 ~]$ gthumb

[1]+ Stopped gthumb
[gordon@lap1 ~]$ bg
[1]+ gthumb &
[gordon@lap1 ~]$ gkrellm

[2]+ Stopped gkrellm
[gordon@lap1 ~]$ bg
[2]+ gkrellm &
[gordon@lap1 ~]$ jobs
[1]- Running gthumb &
[2]+ Running gkrellm &
[gordon@lap1 ~]$ kill %2
[gordon@lap1 ~]$ kill %1
[2]+ Exit 1 gkrellm
[gordon@lap1 ~]$
[1]+ Terminated gthumb
[gordon@lap1 ~]$

[ppesci]

That's work too using the same terminal

[hermouche]

Originally Posted by gthill

You could kick the process into the background, then you can use the same terminal.
ctrl z will suspend the process, then the command 'bg' will place it in the background.
You can then use 'kill %1' which will kill the 1st process in the background.
The command 'jobs' will show you which commands are in the background and its number

[gordon@lap1 ~]$ gthumb

[1]+ Stopped gthumb
[gordon@lap1 ~]$ bg
[1]+ gthumb &
[gordon@lap1 ~]$ gkrellm

[2]+ Stopped gkrellm
[gordon@lap1 ~]$ bg
[2]+ gkrellm &
[gordon@lap1 ~]$ jobs
[1]- Running gthumb &
[2]+ Running gkrellm &
[gordon@lap1 ~]$ kill %2
[gordon@lap1 ~]$ kill %1
[2]+ Exit 1 gkrellm
[gordon@lap1 ~]$
[1]+ Terminated gthumb
[gordon@lap1 ~]$

Yes i like it, good strategy.
Thanks gthill

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