can't stop yum, must use kill -9

[seth vidal]

> an other thing is/was "\*" and "*" as wildcard
> i am not sure if it was "yum" and/or "rpm"
> in some versions "*" is ok and suddenly after an update you have to use 
> "\*" to get the expected resultat.
> i do not know in which release/version this happened.
> "\*" is/was always ok.

This has nothing to do with yum.
This is completely a function of your shell.

bash or tcsh is expanding out the wildcard, you have to escape them or
single quote them for yum to see them un-expanded.

-sv