When you send a process in the background you can use the "jobs" command to get its PID. Using this PID you can terminate it by sending signal 15 (or, if this doesn't help, 9).
The display format of "jobs" might differ slightly from OS to OS, so you will have to fine-tune the following sketch to work on yours. I have not tested it yet, so you might have to adapt it a bit too:
Code:
....
controljob ()
{
typeset chJob="$1" # some command line
typeset -i iTimeOut=$2 # time to wait in seconds
typeset -i iPID=0
typeset -i iCnt=0
$chJob &
iPID=$(jobs | sed, awk, ...) # whatever is necessary for your system
while [ $iCnt -lt $iTimeOut -a $(ps -p $iPID | wc -l) -gt 0 ] ; do
sleep 1
(( iCnt += 1 ))
done
if [ $(ps -p $iPID | wc -l) -gt 0 ] ; then
kill -15 $iPID
sleep 3 # the process may need some time to terminate
fi
if [ $(ps -p $iPID | wc -l) -gt 0 ] ; then
kill -9 $iPID
exit 1
fi
exit 0
}
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
queuedefs
queuedefs(4) File Formats queuedefs(4)NAME
queuedefs - queue description file for at, batch, and cron
SYNOPSIS
/etc/cron.d/queuedefs
DESCRIPTION
The queuedefs file describes the characteristics of the queues managed by cron(1M). Each non-comment line in this file describes one queue.
The format of the lines are as follows:
q.[njobj][nicen][nwaitw]
The fields in this line are:
q The name of the queue. a is the default queue for jobs started by at(1); b is the default queue for jobs started by batch (see
at(1)); c is the default queue for jobs run from a crontab(1) file.
njob The maximum number of jobs that can be run simultaneously in that queue; if more than njob jobs are ready to run, only the first
njob jobs will be run, and the others will be run as jobs that are currently running terminate. The default value is 100.
nice The nice(1) value to give to all jobs in that queue that are not run with a user ID of super-user. The default value is 2.
nwait The number of seconds to wait before rescheduling a job that was deferred because more than njob jobs were running in that job's
queue, or because the system-wide limit of jobs executing has been reached. The default value is 60.
Lines beginning with # are comments, and are ignored.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 A sample file.
#
#
a.4j1n
b.2j2n90w
This file specifies that the a queue, for at jobs, can have up to 4 jobs running simultaneously; those jobs will be run with a nice value
of 1. As no nwait value was given, if a job cannot be run because too many other jobs are running cron will wait 60 seconds before trying
again to run it.
The b queue, for batch(1) jobs, can have up to 2 jobs running simultaneously; those jobs will be run with a nice(1) value of 2. If a job
cannot be run because too many other jobs are running, cron(1M) will wait 90 seconds before trying again to run it. All other queues can
have up to 100 jobs running simultaneously; they will be run with a nice value of 2, and if a job cannot be run because too many other jobs
are running cron will wait 60 seconds before trying again to run it.
FILES
/etc/cron.d/queuedefs queue description file for at, batch, and cron.
SEE ALSO at(1), crontab(1), nice(1), cron(1M)SunOS 5.11 1 Mar 1994 queuedefs(4)
09-08-2012
