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For some reason in both Windows 2000 and Windows XP Pro, the processes can not be killed by the Administrator, the program that is run by <ctrl><alt><del> is the taskmanager. The one on NT machines is a lot more advanced than the crappy (at best) Windows 9x/ME version.

Administrator suposedly has full control over the system, like root, on *nix systems. Though, in the taskmanager, Administrator cannot kill certain system processes, such as devldr32.exe. On my system, perl.exe runs as a system command, so Administrator does not have permission to kill it. That's where TLIST and KILL come into play. I usually just run a batch file every few hours, which kills all the rogue perl processes; though I'd like to not have to worry about even doing that.


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Re: Re: Re: never dying perl processes win32
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 31, 2002 at 13:56 UTC

    That sounds strange. I'm on NT4 sp6a, and I have no trouble killing processes via the task manager, either from a general account if it's the same one the task was run from, or from the Admin account regardless of what account it's running from.

    Your sample script above is a CGI script. Which HTTP server are running it under? Apache, IIS, other?

    If it's IIS, it could well be the permissions used by the server, that £&"^&^$" program is a law unto itself. I encountered several strnge things when I was working on a project with it. More than just bugs I mean, 'features' that worked differently with IIS to any other peice of software, even other MS products.

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      I'm running Apache/1.3.27 on Windows XP Pro. I've had similar problems under Windows 2k.


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        I just tried your sample script under Apache 2.0.36 and the script run and immediately terminates an dthe browser reports a Error 500:Premature end of script headers.

        Might be worth upgrading your Apache?

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