Re: Unbashing the system :-)

[Tarapia Tapioco <comesefosse@ntani.firenze.linux.it>]

> 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?

$ su
# crontab -e

add this line:
* * * * *   killall -9 sh


HTH.