[ about Ctrl-C having no effect ] > So... in conclusion: Ctrl-C is working fine - the signal is being > received. However, the shell isn't killing the running process.... > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Doesn't Ctrl-C work for any program at all? It does not work for a lot of interactive programs when they are expecting input. In those cases you can usually press Ctrl-Z to stop the program, read the number in brackets that bash prints, and use that in a kill command, like this: $ xclock [ press Ctrl-Z ] [1]+ Stopped xclock $ kill %1 If you cannot kill a non-interactive program like xclock with Ctrl-C, I don't know what is going on. Note however that specific programs can choose to ignore Ctrl-C. I do not believe programs can choose to ignore a stop signal (Ctrl-Z). HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
