On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:55:46AM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote: > ssh machine "kill -9 `/sbin/pidof namd`" The new commands, pgrep and pkill, (new to me, anyway) make this task even simpler, eg ssh machine pkill namd -- David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC dad at datix.2y.net www.datix.us