RE: [cobalt-users] Stopping tail -f

["Berg, Guy van den" <Guy.vandenBerg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI

Ctrl-z suspends a process, hence why you still have to kill it and Ctrl-c
interrupts the current foreground process.

You might want to check out the following commands for more on backgrounding
a job: bg, fg, jobs

Cheers,
g.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Young [mailto:me@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 02 August 2001 01:21
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Stopping tail -f


hi there
> I sometimes use tail -f to monitor the maillog or httpd/access log. I'm
not
> sure of the "right" way to stop this though. I have been hitting Ctrl-Z,
but
> the tail process is still running so I have to run top then kill the
process
> ID. Can someone tell me how to stop this the correct way (if there is
one)?
> I tried man tail and info tail but came up empty.
> 
I usually use Ctrl-c

b w gerald young
> ~ Chris Calabrese
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