> If you want to script this, get something like ptree (from the resource > kit) or pskill (from sysinternals) to kill the process. I just remembered that ptree requires a service to be installed, so drop that option. pskill is what you want. Joost --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx