I am trying to write a perl script to kill off process as part of an automated monitoring/maintenance system. Unfortunately the processes to be managed are owned by an application user (appusr) different from the monitoring user (monusr). The following is the scenerio.... A process,"proc", is run by "appusr" When "monusr" detects faults with "proc" and executes a script owned by "appusr" (permissions 4711) to kill the bad process. When "monusr" executes appusr's perl script with the following simplified code: #!/usr/bin/perl $pid1 = $ARGV[0]; process_kill("$pid1"); sub process_kill { my($pid) = @_; if(kill 0, $pid) { kill 'TERM', $pid; } else { print "NOT THERE\n"; } } I get the error: "Insecure dependency in kill while running setuid at /dev/fd/3". Is there something I can do to satisfy this security condition which will allow perl to complete the action, or am I out of luck, stuck kluging the script in ksh. Any advice would be helpful. Thanks, Matt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]