Hi, I need to kill a process if it has exceeded the allocated time eg,2 seconds. In windows, i'm able to kill the application using the Win32::Proces how to achieve this in unix? or else is there a common function available to kill the application. perlport docs doesn't seem to provide any information on this. Thanks in advance, jayak _____________________________________________________________ Get Free Fast Easy email from indiya.com: SIGNUP NOW : http://www.indiya.com