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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

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

If it won't respond to interrupt (control-c), try suspending the job (control-z) and then killing it ("kill %1").

Then "man bash" and read the section entitled "JOB CONTROL". Lot of funky stuff there.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

if all else fails, open another terminal and killall -9 latex