Re: Unbashing the system :-)

[michael <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 11:37 +0300, David Baron wrote:
> Very occasionally but often enough to be a pain, when there is an initial 
> problem connecting to the internet, certain scripts hang up. Repeated 
> attempts fail for whatever reason and "top" shows a long list of "sh" 
> processes stuck around.
> 
> While I do not know what script is responsible, my stuff, I can at least have 
> some control over--how does one put a time-out limit on a bash script?
> 

I'd look into setrlimit and bash's builtin ulimit

-- 
Michael Bane
Atmospheric Physics Group
University of Manchester