From: John Wright Date: 2002-04-14T01:39:39+09:00 Subject: Re: Process controlls > Strange. If you created the process, you should be able to kill it. Yes, that's that I thought too. > > Perhaps this is not exactly what your code is doing? > > Can you do: > system("ps aux | grep #{a.pid}") 704 532 532 704 con 500 Dec31 d:\boo\yah\bleah.exe The Dec31 this is wierd. My sys date is fine..... > > and see if that gives you any relevant debugging information? > > Paul > In order to use the Process.kill method, do I need to to a require Process or something like that? This is my first ever Ruby script so I'm probably totally messing it up. Thanks, Paul......