set a SIGALRM handler and an alarm for 5 minutes. set a flag from the handler.
do the parsing only if the flag is set.
/kk
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 5:43 AM
> Subject: a little help here please
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> > I have a script that does a bunch of things, one of which parses a large
> > amount of log files
> > every cycle through the script, what would I need todo to the script to
> only
> > parse the logfiles every 5 minutes ; yet not impacting the rest of the
> > script?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ron
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