can't stop yum, must use kill -9

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 00:38 +0200, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> 
> >>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.
> >
> 
> afair it was something like this, but i am not 100% sure.
> 
> # yum update  udev*
>   -> no package,  oops ?
> 
> # yum update  udev\*
>   -> udev, ok !
> 
> # yum update  ude*
>   -> udev, ok !
> 
> 
> this would be a problem with yum and not the shell.
> 

no, it's not.

run yum -d 3 update [your globs]

and look what yum said it received as args.

-sv