Carlos Santana wrote: > As specified in my first message, I have tried that. Its not working.. :( You've specifically tried kill -9 ? That just doesn't make sense, I have never seen a process in a "S" state that did not die as a result of a kill -9. "D" state yes, "Z" state yes, "T" state maybe, but never ever "S" (or any variant of S). kill and kill -9 are not the same thing(sorry if it's obvious I don't know your level of expertise). nate