UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all,
I got a script that runs automatically using the cron file.
The script starts running at midnight and suppose to delete image files from folders and sub-folders. The script ends when he finishes deleting or after 5 hours. My problem is that the script doesn't stop running even after 5 hours, it causes the computer to be slower, so when I type "top" I can see that the "du" process kills the CPU usage.
Is there anyway to force the script to stop?, is it computer configuration related?
Any help will be appreciated.

If it takes you 5 hours to delete files then maybe your need to look at your script again or file management on your server. You must have 100's of thousands of files... Anyways I guess you are doing a check for the 5 hours, a simple exit should do the job. Maybe post your script and people maybe see what you are doing.

Hi
I attached 2 files below:
The script: check_space.txt (just rename to check_space)
The resource file that defines the folders' sizes: check_space.res.txt (just rename to check_space.res)

These are the lines that activates the script from the cron (root):
# PERIODICAL CHECK IMAGE SIZE
6 1 * * * /usr/local/opal/utils/check_space
5 5 * * * killall -9 du
6 5 * * * killall -9 /usr/local/opal/utils/check_space

Does the script run fine on the command line? If not debug the script by putting a set -x at the top (or something similar) of the script and see that
where the script is getting into problems.

HTH
enc.