alain williams wrote: > I use rsync for backups, this normally runs silently overnight. I did not see > the huge number of error messages as rsync also hung and the script did not > end > and thus send me email.
You can solve this class of problems with the coreutils program "timeout". It will run a given program and kill it if it is still running after a configurable period of time. -dsr- -- https://randomstring.org/~dsr/eula.html is binding upon you. [Set the new password to "swordfish". Please repeat everything three times.]
