1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have a C program that takes anywhere from 5 to 100 arguments and I'd like to run it from a script that makes sure it doesnt take too long to execute. If the C program takes more than 5 seconds to execute, i would like the shell script to kill it and return a short message to the user. ... (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I have a requirement to check how long a process is running on unix system.If i use ps -ef i am getting the following message guest 2453638 1998920 0 16:16:05 - 0:00 dsapi_slave 9 8 0 but this is showing only time not the date.Can any one please advice me any script to find out how... (2 Replies)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

How do I check if a particular process is running from a certain date and time ? (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Here's the scenario i have this servd process i want to kill, but i want to kill it one time. bash-2.03# ps -ef | grep servd | grep User123 | wc -l 300 bash-2.03# ps -ef | grep servd | grep User123 | more User123 2007 2006 0 03:17:09 pts/12 0:00 /usr/bin/su - User123 -c ssh... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Gurus, I am writing a shell script that will be used to automate cold backup of an Oracle Database. The database size is around 300G and will take around 5-6 hours to copy. I have finished the script till the copy of the datafiles. Now, I am stuck at the point where I need to monitor the... (4 Replies)

6. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

Hi i am a newbie thanks in advance i have a process which keeps on running but doesn't use any CPU time and doesn't do the functionality which it is suppose to do . If i kill the process and start the process again then the process kicks in and starts using CPU time and continues to do its... (3 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Consider two servers tst01 and tst02. i need to log in tst01 and check for the processes which run in tst02. then based on pid , i need to kill that process. is it possible to achieve? I am able to connect to tst02 using ftp. But the problem is, if i use ps it says invalid command. ... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

Hi, I'm new to Linux. I have a windows server that run many processes on it. In some cases the processes doesn't exit properly or just stop working and the process needs to be killed. I was wondering how i can automatically (couple of times a day) check which process doesn't use any CPU... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need a script to kill the process if it running for long time. Inputs for the scripts: 1.test.sh (will be running fron cron scheduler) 2.1 hr (ie threshold_time - if the test.sh is running for more than 1 hr test.sh has to kill) Thanks, Divya (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to run a script that calls remote ssh and if it gets hung, I want to be able to kill that part of the script and run another command in the script for example I have a statement like this: if ]; then export tapes=$(for tape in $(su - nacct -c 'ssh remote1 "cat... (1 Reply)