On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 09:20:05AM +0200, Yuval Hager wrote: > On Tuesday 30 December 2008, shimi wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <p...@goldshmidt.org> > > wrote: > > > shimi <linux...@shimi.net> writes: > > > > There's The Fault Tolerant Shell[1], that assumes that running for > > > > too long is 'a fault', which you might use. > > > > > > I am not sure - the typical use case of ftsh is to keep trying for so > > > many times or for such and such time interval if your task keeps > > > failing. I understood the OP requirements as to be able to kill a > > > perfectly running application after a specified time interval. I am > > > not sure ftsh handles this case. > > > > I know what the typical use is, but... if you define "try one attempt" and > > "a failure is when the task is running more than 4 hours", essentially you > > build something that runs whatever you want, and assumes a failure after 4 > > hours, cleans it up gracefully, and that's it, no? > > > > Yes, I can confirm it works for me, albeit it is a bit strange that a > successful 6 hours rsync session ends with an error "script failed". > > I also wish ftsh project would look a bit more "alive" (and packaged for my > distro would be awesome).
BTW, "apt-get install timeout" might be what you wanted. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il
