What to do if PHP gets out of control on NT

Hi Mark, I know the problem, but I never actually tested out a solution. What I am figuring though is, that php.exe probably runs under the system account and because of that the Admin does not have permission to kill it. What I would try is writing (or downloading one somewhere) a small program that kills a given process. Then try running that as Admin on php.exe. If it still gives you get access denied, then schedule the program using the "at" command, because those run with the System account, which should have the permission. Now I am not sure if this works, but it is a guess. Let me (probably some other people would like to know too) know what you get or if you find a other solution. Good Luck, Florian Nold, Mark wrote: Hi people, Im running PHP as CGI ( www.php4win.de <http://www.php4win.de> distro) on Apache (not as a service) on NT 4 server. If i have a runaway PHP process i can see it in the task manager but i cant kill it. I get told that i dont have permission (at the terminal with the user who started the Apache app... which happens to be Administrator). This is generally because of a bad script in development but its still a problem. So is there any way to kill these PHP processes? I can envisage if we go to production with this and something goes wrong ill end up with PHP.exe's all sitting on the task list. Also is there a way to look for these PHP.exe some how and kill them? I was thinking of having a script that ran each night to do a check up and clean up. Thanks mn -- Florian Clever fc@clever-soft.com http://www.Clever-Software-Solutions.de/ PGP Key @ ldap://certserver.pgp.net/ * Black holes are where God divided by zero. *