Thanks for your reply. Cool. So far I've been doing:

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ps aux | more

And then I scroll through the list to find the PIDs. Sometimes when I use the "kill -9" command, though, it doesn't seem to kill the process. I'm not sure why.

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% ps -ef | grep "run-any-agent MyProgramN " | grep -v grep

  userid 13112 13110  4 15:10:03  ttyp12    00:00:00 run-any-agent MyProgramN

I'm not sure what "-ef" and "-v" do but I can look them up.
Yes, it makes a lot of sense. My next question then would be: How do I find out all the children or zombie processes and then go ahead killing them nicely? This way, then I'd have a neat way (thanks to you) to start the programs and then another neat way to kill them all. It would save me a lot hassle. I must say that scripts are cool. :-)

Thanks,

DTW

P.S:
Hmm - I'd have to think about what you wrote, but, thank you for clearing that up.

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So, I tried:

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ps -ef | grep "run-any-agent MyProgram1 MyProgram2 MyProgram3 " | grep -v grep

After I typed:

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./run-all-agents MyProgram1 MyProgram2 MyProgram3

But nothing happened...Did I miss something?

DTW

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So, "-e" seems to be a way to use a pattern of some sort. I'm not sure what the "f" after the "e" does, really.
"-v" specifies the string that we don't want to grep.

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grep abc -v

would mean look for all files that DON'T have "abc" in them? Does this sound correct?

DTW