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[nonethefewer]

In Linux on this one box, I run sudo latex file.tex.  Sometimes I forget the sudo in a folder where I don't have permission to create new files, and it hangs.

(This is on a server where I'm a sort of advanced guest, so yes, the sudo is necessary.)

[christina@192 test]$ latex file.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
! I can't write on file `file.log'.
Please type another transcript file name: !

How the eff do I quit out of that?

Comments

[novalis]

Ctrl-c doesn't work? Try Ctrl-c Ctrl-d? Ctrl-z ; kill %100, where 100 is the job number (not pid) printed in brackets when the job is suspended? From another shell, ps x |grep latex; kill N, where N is the pid (first column) of the ps output?