Renat Golubchyk writes: > On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:02:47 +0200 Amit Dor-Shifer <ami...@oversi.com> > wrote: > > When hitting Ctrl-C during startup, I manage to interrupt services at > > the early stages of init, yet later-on I can no-longer do this. It > > seems that up till runlevel 'default', services can be hit with the > > interrupt. > > Why do you want to stop services by hitting CTRL-C ?
I do this when a periodic files system check of a large partition kicks in and I do not want to spend the time waiting for it. Other things I like to interrupt are long timeouts, e.g. while some program waits for a server to respond, but I do not have an internet connection at the moment. I had this problem with an annoyingly large NTP timeout (it seems to be much smaller these days), and I wished I could have stopped it. Wonko