At 5:19 PM -0400 5/9/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I meant htdig -- the process which actually goes out and searches the
>website(s). "Seems logical" that, if htdig is initiated from a unix-shell
>script, there ought to be a way to limit elapsed time; does anyone have a
>working example of this/equivalent?
Sure, you can do this through things like process accounting and
sometimes the ulimit command. But these are brute-force approaches.
My suggestion is to use the many available built-in controls like
max_hop_count or server_max_docs if you think you're getting infinite
loops.
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-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
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