24 Apr
2003
24 Apr
'03
4:09 p.m.
Dan Hatton dan.hatton@btinternet.com wrote:
and I can't stop it running without knowing what it's called. Any suggestions, please?
Try ps Udan or whatever your username is. You might find that it's running as root, which you should be able to see with ps xf as I assume it's running as a child of xinit or xdm or similar, but then you can't stop it without being root. For non-interactive tasks, you could put them in the batch queue (see man batch) and only do the package configuration interactively, which that auto-killer should be happy about. Running tasks from in screen (see man screen) should also stop the term closing from killing it.
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