Question
How to send signals through the web console (terminal)
- Posted on January 2, 2022
- Linux Commands
Asked by ra the wolf
i wanted to send an signal to interrupt which is normally ctrl+c, but nothing happened. I tried typing ^c, ^C, and ^[c (option+c generates this one), but nothing worked…
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Hi @rahil627,
You are correct, it’s ctrl+c. Having said this, sometimes it takes some time for the Droplet to receive the signal and stop the job it’s executing, it’s often experienced when it’s a job that requests more computing power.