On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 04:13:13PM -0700, Chris Stone wrote: > try CTRL-Z to put that running process in your shell to sleep, then: > > bg 1 You're missing a % there > killall -TERM yum Or just "control-Z" and then 'kill -9 %1' You don't need to background the job and then kill every process matching a name. -- rgds Stephen