On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 12:00 -0700, Brandin Creech wrote: > Here is a generic method to implement a timeout in BASH. Suppose you have a > script that potentially takes a long time to execute. Such a script looks > like this:
Looks good - I use something similar at work to scp a file to a bunch of other machines from a cron job. Though in my case, the processes are the other way around, something like: scp somefile somemachine: & pid=$! #pid of last backgrounded process sleep 20 if ps -p $pid | grep scp; then # make sure pid isn't reused. kill $pid fi Incidentally, does anyone know a better way of making ssh/scp timeout if it's sitting waiting for the user to enter a password? Our machines are supposed to use ssh keys so no password is needed, but now and then this fails, resulting in backgrounded processes hanging at the prompt... Simon.
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