Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/sh

echo "My Parent Script"
home/guru/initiateServer.sh

#!/bin/sh

echo "My Parent Script"
home/guru/initiateServer.sh &
pid=$!
sleep 600
if [ kill -0 $pid ] {
 echo "killing initiateServer as it took too long to complete"
 kill $pid # you could optionally add a -9 in there if the server has a sigterm handler 
}

#!/bin/sh

echo "My Parent Script"
home/guru/initiateServer.sh &
pid=$!
for i in {0..60} ; do
   kill -0 $pid
   if [ $? -eq 1 ]  ; then
      exit
   fi
   sleep 10
done
kill $pid

 
#!/bin/sh
echo "My Parent Script"
home/guru/initiateServer.sh &
pid=$!
at now + 10 minutes <<_EOF_
kill $pid 2>/dev/null
_EOF_

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

perl -e "alarm 600; exec @ARGV" home/guru/initiateServer.sh