srinivasan srinivas schrieb:
Thanks a lot. But i am wondeing will it return correct pid if more than one instance of <scriptname> run on the remote machine?? Thanks, Srini
On UNIX-like OS: If you start the process in the background, you can get the PID with: <myhost>:~> ssh <remotehost> 'ls -l & echo PID=$!' | grep PID PID=30596 <myhost>:~> see: man bash -> Special Parameters Grüessli -- Kurt Müller, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list