Johan Geldenhuys wrote:
> So far:
> I tried
> >>> f = os.popen('ping 192.168.8.85 -c 100 > cap2.txt')
>
> You will see that I send the output from the command to a file, because
> I want to test how stop the command before it reaches 100 pings.
> If I don't write the output to the file 'cap2.txt' and succeeds in
> closing 'f', all the data returned to 'f' will be lost.
>
> If i use:
> >>>f.close()
> Then 'f' is not closed and the commands until 100 packets has been send.
>
> So, I am still looking for a way to stop the command before it
> terminates by itself. I will not be able to get the process ID in all he
> cases to kill it that way.
Trent Mick's process.py shows how to kill a process started from Python.
http://starship.python.net/crew/tmick/
Kent
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