At Tuesday 2/5/2006 16:50, Gerrat Rickert wrote: >Im logged in as an administrator on my computer >(actually a domain admin) and I cant seem to >get the killProcName.py program (that came with >Mark Hammonds python extensions) to kill ANY >process owned by SYSTEM (Ive tried a few eg. iPodService, Apache) > >I can open the windows task manager, right-click >the process and do an End Process, and that >kills it just fine, but I just get an error when I try it from Python: >(5, OpenProcess, Access is denied.)
Thats because you, even as administrator, do not have enough privilege to grab the process handle. This is a common scenario for services running as Local System. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197155/en-us Gabriel Genellina Softlab SRL __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32