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Nevermind, I found an answer. I do this:

# run ftp as a backgrond process and test the return value
ftp -n $HOST -T $CHILDTIME <<-[]>> $LOG 2>&1 &
user "$USER" "$PASSWORD"
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I am looking for a way to timeout a ftp script in pre Solaris 2.8 (i.e. I cannot use the -T option to ftp).

Does anyone have a way of doing this? I was thinking maybe a subprocess and sleep...