Hi Jorgen THanks for your help. I began writing a wrapper around python did (as Donn suggested), but then noticed that this was due to not having educated myself on the options you can pass to ps, pidof and top:
running pidof -x and using the 'c' command in top work pretty nicely. That way I no longer see 23 'pythons' in the system : ) and know which one to stop. Mack -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
