volks,
I decided to help john to start by writing a ps Tree to process the data into the classic tree structures we all like: http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/lang/Perl/Beginners/Sys/psTree.txt and I keep getting the output pid: 0 is owned by UNK and has children: 1 2 but if I do: [jeeves:~] drieux% ps -p0 PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND [jeeves:~] drieux% to verify..... ciao drieux --- ps: is this the part where I start considering hard drug abuse as a viable social alternative to perlMongering???? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]