> I'm having some issues with exec.  What I'm trying to do is get 
> exec to run this command
> kill -9 `cat program.pid`
> where program.pid file contains the 
> process # of the program I am killing.
> all combinations of escape characters and html 
> markup codes seem to be not working.  Does anyone have an idea?

I believe that ` is interpreted by the shell. Try something like:

<exec ... executable="/bin/sh">
  <arg value="-c"/>
  <arg value="kill -9 `cat program.pid`"/>
</exec>

Jon

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