On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:34:25PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > * Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-26 16:29 +0200: > > > I have a shell script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that synchronizes the system > > > clock with time servers via rdate. Sometimes the servers can't be > > > reached, and the rest of my scripts are blocked. Is there a way to say: > > > "You have at most 10 seconds to complete this command, or fail"? > > > > Have a look at ntp - you may be attempting to solve the wrong problem! > > Thanks... but still I'd like to know if it's possible to use a shell > script with a timeout, in general.
In the script, instead of directly calling rdate, call 'exec rdate'. rdate will run and the script will exit. Note that you can't do this if you need to do some processing in your script after rdate runs. Rob -- They are called computers simply because computation is the only significant job that has so far been given to them.
