Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:24:26 +0200 From: Marian Cerny <cernm0bm@st.ms.mff.cuni.cz> To: Petko Hristov Popadiyski <petko_bg@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Time execution command? Message-ID: <20010620222426.A15793@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> In-Reply-To: <20010620155800.14910.qmail@web4206.mail.yahoo.com>; from petko_bg@yahoo.co.uk on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:58:00PM %2B0100 References: <000e01c0f0b5$cca8b850$f3acdd3f@airscapenet.com> <20010620155800.14910.qmail@web4206.mail.yahoo.com>
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> Is there a command , excepting crontab, which can stop
> execution of other command. For example I want to stop
> ppp 2 hours after I have start it. It can be made with
> crontab but it is inconvenient.
If I would like to do something like that, I would do it
with a shell script.
I made one:
--- SCRIPT
#!/bin/sh
#
# run command on background and after specified time
# stop the command
# BUG: if the command finishes on its own, than
# it writes some info about terminating
# if parameter count ($#) is <= 2
if [ $# -le 2 ]; then
echo "usage: $0 sec_to_wait command" >&2
exit 1
fi
# run sleep on background and save its PID ($!)
sleep $1 &
sleepPID=$!
# shift parameters left
shift
# run command on background (+ if it finishes kill sleep command)
# and save its PID
( eval $* ; kill $sleepPID 2> /dev/null) &
procPID=$!
# wait for sleep to finish
wait $sleepPID
# test if the command was killed or finished on its own
if kill $procPID 2> /dev/null; then
echo "Procces killed"
else
echo "Procces finished"
fi
--- SCRIPT END
But I have problem with some info about termination. It can be solved like that:
script 20 echo hi \; sleep 10 \; echo end 2> /dev/null
^^^^^^^^^^^^
I'm not sure it will help you, but thats the way, I will do it. Maybe it can be done more easyly, but I'm not UNIX guru :-).
hope it will help a bit.
--
Marian Cerny
cerny@spnv.sk
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