[Tutor] Help with daemon

[Alberto Troiano]

Hi

I will make it with CRON. Thanks Max for the idea

Now I have another problem

How can I kill a process???????

I know that if I run ps --user username it returns all the process started 
by username even the PIDs and with kill -9 PID I destroy the process but I 
don't know how to execute it from Python

I tried:
>>>import os
>>>os.system("ps --user root")

and I get

0
as a return
How can I get the PID and bind the command above with a variable?? I mean
varusername="root"
os.system("ps --user varusername")
works???????

thanks in advanced

Alberto

>From: Max Noel <maxnoel_fr at yahoo.fr>
>To: "Alberto Troiano" <albertito_g at hotmail.com>
>CC: tutor at python.org
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] Help with daemon
>Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:38:00 +0100
>
>
>On Apr 27, 2005, at 22:35, Alberto Troiano wrote:
>
>>I'm gonna give you an example:
>>
>>The program will check for new users and to check record time every 10 
>>seconds. But first the program will have to finish the checking process 
>>that started before so it won't be 10 seconds right?
>>Unless I have one process for each user to check the database at the same 
>>time is checking other users
>
>	This sounds like it'd be better done as a cron job (man cron for more 
>info).
>
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