cntl-c

Michael Koppelman wrote on Jun 05, 2003

Forgive my ignorance, but is there an IRAF-approved way to cancel a 
process in progress? It's seems if you use the nice, standard ctl-C 
that the app sort of hangs forever.

Thanks!
Michael Koppelman

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jun 05, 2003

> Forgive my ignorance, but is there an IRAF-approved way to cancel a 
> process in progress? It's seems if you use the nice, standard ctl-C 
> that the app sort of hangs forever.

	Cntrl-C is the way to do it, however there is presently a known
problem with this on Mac OS X 10.2 systems that will be fixed in the
next patch.  In some V2.11 PC-IRAF release this was occassionally a 
problem after using epar, but other than that it should work now.  What
platform is this?  What task are you trying to interrupt, i.e. a script
or compiled task?

-Mike

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Edi Bon wrote on Jun 06, 2003

You can use kill from standard UNIX command, after "ps -aux", you can find
a proces that you want to cancel, and then put "kill -9"
followed by the number of the proces seen from 'ps -aux'.

Edi
 
 On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Michael Koppelman
wrote:

> Forgive my ignorance, but is there an IRAF-approved way to cancel a 
> process in progress? It's seems if you use the nice, standard ctl-C 
> that the app sort of hangs forever.
> 
> Thanks!
> Michael Koppelman
> 
> 

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Michael Koppelman wrote on Jul 22, 2003

On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 11:13 PM, Michael Koppelman wrote:

> Forgive my ignorance, but is there an IRAF-approved way to cancel a 
> process in progress? It's seems if you use the nice, standard ctl-C 
> that the app sort of hangs forever.

I apologize if I missed the answer for this: is there any answer for 
this?


Also, I have two suggestions:

1. Rename PC-IRAF to UNIX-IRAF or better yet just IRAF. If not now soon 
most people will be running the "PC" version of IRAF and the term "PC" 
is not at all good at describing what that package is.

2. This is minor but the 'cl' command IMHO should be the 'iraf' 
command. Yes, I know, IRAF is a lot of pieces fitting together and can 
be used in many different ways, but most people who run IRAF run the cl 
all the time and consider the cl to be the iraf program. The name cl is 
no longer useful.

Cheers,
Michael Koppelman

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