Re: ITS A COMPUTER QUESTION

At Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:48:38 +0000, Tom Mix <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, % <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > .
> >
> > when you want something to stop doing something how do you stop it
> 
> ctrl-c, kill -9 pid, pkill

Those won't just stop the process, but will terminate it.

To _stop_ a process, you send it SIGSTOP.  If it's the foregrounded
process, usually you can hit the stop character, ctrl-z.

This geek moment brought to you by sig number 19.

BTW:  if you have a process in the foreground that won't terminate
with ctrl-c, try ctrl-\ for SIGKILL -- and if _that_ doesn't work,
either your terminal is borked or it is blocked waiting for an
uninterruptable signal.  It will appear in the process table as
state ' D ' (for "dirty").

> 
> Ohh, windows? reboot Bwhahaha

Or hit the "almost secure attention key" (ctrl-alt-del) to
bring up the task manager.

Finally, as an exercise to the reader, learn about the Linux
"Magic" sysreq key:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst?h=v7.1.8

Knowledge should be spread.  Share and enjoy.

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