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Old 04-08-2015
Help with "process age " script
I want a script that will identify all processes for a particular id and kill it if its running more than 5 hours.


i have tried to make it but dont know how to find to retrive the process running more than 5 hours.

tried below:
ps -eo pid,etime,comm,user,tty | grep sas

please help me how to get the process running more than 5 hours
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Old 04-08-2015
What OS?

If /proc/[PID] exists, you can get the mod or create time from there, which should tell you exactly when the process started.
 
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