Hi,

pskill & psexec are fine utilities indeed, but to answer your question, "Yes, Perl can kill processes on a remote Win32 workstation."

Perl will need the help of WMI, though! This should be installed by default on W98 - XP machines.

If you have the NTReskit, check out the kill.vbs script which does exactly this. If you want to convert that to Perl using Win32::OLE then why not post the results here afterwards :-)

You should also check out Dave Roth's site and nodes like How to Start a Process in a Remote Win32 Machine using Perl and WMI for other examples of getting process listings under Win32.

HTH - Mark