Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!xanth!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: A few minor questions Message-ID: <13348@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 20 Jan 89 04:50:03 GMT References: <557@gara.une.oz> <13313@ncoast.UUCP> <2060@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.os.minix Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 25 As quoted from <2060@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> by jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes): +--------------- | In article <13313@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: | > or kill update, mount it, and restart update. | ^^^^^^^^^^^ | > | > ++Brandon | | This is off the track, but with version 1.2 (which doesn't | have a 'ps') how do you kill a process that you don't have a | process id for? +--------------- Since I did this manually, I just used F1 to glean the process ID. (Nowadays my /etc/rc mounts the hard drive before starting update.) I'm using Minix 1.1 with the 1.2 HD driver, and am still waiting for P-H to announce the availability of the official 1.3 update (rather than get kicked off UUNET for FTP'ing it on their dime...). ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org (soon) uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser