From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 20: 7:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C3F37B423 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 20:07:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv@worldnet.att.net) Received: from worldnet.att.net ([32.101.235.7]) by mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010516030741.VRLA12661.mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net@worldnet.att.net> for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 03:07:41 +0000 Received: by worldnet.att.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6FCCB195EB; Tue, 15 May 2001 23:10:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 23:10:46 -0400 From: parv To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to kill fetch -a ? Message-ID: <20010515231046.A4368@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG once i was trying to fetch some file w/ -a option; after waiting for sometime (hours on a <33kbs connection) when i tried to # kill -9 old fetch process would die but will start a new one w/ new pid. even tried to use killall and to delete the file being downloaded w/ no success. i could kill the fetch process only after killing ppp completely not just sending -SIGINT to ppp. man page says fetch(1) will retry the transfer upon /soft failures/. fetch seemed to have very hard definition of soft. is there any way to kill "fetch -a blah" without killing ppp? - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message