2010/1/4 Paul Allen Newell <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu>: > > I though "control-C" was an immediate kill of whatever was running and was > wondering why yum didn't stop when I tried to kill it. > It's an interrupt, which could be blocked or it might be on a different queue. You should be able to background yum and kill it straight away: Ctrl+z kill %1 -c