Kevin Traas wrote: >Greetings, >I've got a system here that I've been building from scratch - just to >***learn*** how Debian / Linux works from the ground up (right from >building my own boot disk - initrd, etc.). I've got everything working >great; however.... Hitting CTRL-C does not kill a running process.
The `thing' that stops a running process is a signal; ctrl-c is a way to send that signal. However, that is dependent on the current binding of keys; the binding is set by stty. `stty -a' will show you all the current bindings. You apparently need to set intr to ctrl-c, which you can do thus: stty intr '^c' -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ ======================================== Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 ======================================== "Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;" Matthew 5:43,44