I have a script run by cron once every half hour which gets a RADAR image, does some manipulation on the file, and stores it. It's been running fine for a few weeks now.
However, when I got home from work today, the computer was *very* sluggish, and 'ps' showed many many instances of both the script and 'giftopnm' (one of the programs used in the script). I don't know what went wrong, but giftopnm was hanging and not allowing the script to complete. So - is there any way to limit the amount of time a cronjob (or any other job) can live? Hints appreciated... -jdr- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs