[SOLVED] Process ID

[Asheeown]

Alright, that's it, finally after all this time I have figured it out.  Can't say much for the help but I can say thanks for the attempts for the people who did try like Dark, or Xan.

 

If anyone would like to know, the thing I was trying to accomplish was kill a background process if a user was inactive for a certain amount of time.  I thought the only way possible was to log the process ID when the script was executed and have a cron job kill it if the user was inactive.  I have now thought on the script side.  Now at the top of the script when it refreshes which is every 30 seconds in the background it will check if the user is inactive and if so it will run a die() command.

 

So simple yet for almost a month I couldn't figure it out...solved.

[DarkWater]

Heh, glad you finally figured it out.

[qwerty]

Just a working example of WScript.Shell usage:

 

$wscript = new COM('WScript.Shell');
$Command = $wscript->Exec("ls");
$PID = $Command->ProcessID;
echo $PID."\n";