Why doesn't kill work?

[Jonathan Berry]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:52:22 -0500, Robert Locke <rlocke at ralii.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 21:04 -0500, David Liguori wrote:
> > In another thread a user having problems with yum killed it.  I am
> > curious how he accomplished that.  When I run yum (or any other command,
> > for that matter), it stalls, and I stop it with ctrl-z, the following
> > happens:
> >
> 
> First question, why are you stopping it with Ctrl-Z??  Ctrl-Z puts it to
> sleep into the background.  Why not use Ctrl-C which is the intended
> approach?
[snip]

This is kind of an aside, but if yum is downloading packages, Ctrl+C
will not kill it.  Instead, yum will switch to a different mirror to
download the packages from.  This is handy if it happens to pick a
slow mirror.  Just hit Ctrl+C and it will try another one (assuming
you have it set up to use multiple mirrors).  This makes it a little
harder to kill, though, during this stage.

Jonathan