From: johnwyp@... (JohnW) Date: 2002-04-13T05:58:33+09:00 Subject: Re: Process controlls Yet another iteration....and I'm one step closer: a = IO.popen("foo") begin sleep(5) until File.exist?("file") end ensure p "kiing manager" Process.kill("SIGTERM", a.pid) end With this I get the CORRECT pid, but the kill method returns an error saying I'm not the owner. OK...how do I correct that?