i was about to try stop, when, all of the sudden, the power went out. problem solved, sort of. heh. i keep meaning to pick up a apc unit. On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 09:19 PM, Arturo Pérez wrote: > You might be able to kill -STOP it and run another copy of the app if > you need to. > > In both cases your only choice is to wait them out.