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From: Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin@ul.ie>
Subject: Re: Can't kill processes as root in *shell*
Date: 24 Oct 2003 09:33:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3smljdohc.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3F9834BC.2070508@yahoo.com

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:

> Brendan Halpin wrote:
> > In shell-mode, if I "su -", I find that C-c C-c no longer works to
> > kill processes.
> 
> Works for me.  What version of Emacs are you using, on what platform?
> What shell do you use?  (I assume root uses /bin/sh.)  What command are
> you trying to interrupt?  (I assume it's not a pipeline or a subshell.)

21.2 under RH9, 21.3 under RH7.1, root is using /bin/bash. Ordinary
"single" commands, e.g. "ping www.ul.ie".

To my surprise, Kin Cho's suggestion of C-q C-c RET works,
reminding me how little I know about Emacs and its underlays.


Brendan
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Brendan Halpin,  Department of Sociology,  University of Limerick,  Ireland
Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-390476; Room F2-025 x 3147
mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie  http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-24  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-22 10:42 Can't kill processes as root in *shell* Brendan Halpin
2003-10-23 20:06 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-24  8:33   ` Brendan Halpin [this message]
2003-10-23 20:15 ` Kin Cho

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