Hi all, I've just noticed that when I shutdown my Zope server (1.10.2 on SunOS5.6) to load up new products and restart it (by reloading the site in my web browser) that I have a lot of processes lying around; % ps -ef | grep py nobody 12289 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:00 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nobody 12171 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:00 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nobody 12163 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:03 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nobody 12299 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:02 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nobody 12323 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:00 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nobody 12309 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:00 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nobody 12317 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:00 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nobody 12291 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:00 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nobody 24943 1 0 14:29:17 ? 0:02 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nobody 12311 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:02 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nobody 12295 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:00 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nobody 12167 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:02 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nobody 12307 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:02 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nobody 12303 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:00 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nobody 12285 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:03 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nobody 12272 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:00 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py nnle 24957 24917 0 14:31:47 pts/5 0:00 grep py nobody 12293 1 0 Jun 18 ? 0:03 python /home/nnle/zope/pcgi/pcgi_publisher.py The correct pid (from var/pcgi.pid) is 24943. Obviously, these processes have been around for a while (and the server has been running all the time since then), but after my last escapade with pcgi (I had it running whilst I had a port:9673 invocation of Zope running under ZopeHTTPServer .... bad karma, blown database) I thought I'd better check.... any ideas? tone. ------ Dr Tony McDonald, FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 222 5888 Fingerprint: 3450 876D FA41 B926 D3DD F8C3 F2D0 C3B9 8B38 18A2