Start and control an extern program

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Axel,

> I want to start an extern program  and simple stop it, after a
> given time, if not succesfull finished.  
> OS is Linux
Use a Timer object and os.kill.
Usually when a program exit successfully it's return value will be 0 
(the result of sys.exit for example)

HTH.
Miki