From: ts Date: 2001-01-11T18:10:14+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:9125] Re: pid of executed program >>>>> "P" == Phil Tomson writes: P> Anyway, You say that I should do a: P> kill "SIGTERM", 0 P> but won't that also kill the currently running script? No, if you begin your script with trap("TERM") {} Guy Decoux