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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to kill a child script if it takes more than 10 minutes? Post 302817181 by MadeInGermany on Wednesday 5th of June 2013 10:43:49 AM
Old 06-05-2013
I have solved this a year ago:
Code:
home/guru/initiateServer.sh &
task=$!
( sleep 600 && kill $task ) </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &
watchdog=$!
wait $task
sleep 1
kill $watchdog >/dev/null 2>&1

This gives a 99% safety that no innocent process is killed.
The 100% method is with perl:
Code:
perl -e "alarm 600; exec @ARGV" home/guru/initiateServer.sh

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