HI ALL, i would like to kill old process by jull22 i m making one shell scripts let us know how will u trace the process. nobody 29966 0.0 1.9 84552 39540 ? S Jul22 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/fcgi- -DSSL nobody 29973 0.3 2.6 133652 54576 ? S Jul22 2:43 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL nobody 29974 0.3 2.5 132780 53812 ? S Jul22 2:31 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL nobody 29975 0.3 2.6 134120 55116 ? S Jul22 2:42 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL nobody 29976 0.3 2.5 131744 52484 ? S Jul22 2:43 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL date Sun Jul 23 00:08:41 PDT 2006 For example say a June month process, How do i recognize that using ps command Thank you, Kaushal