Re: Unbashing the system :-)
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 13:24 +0200, Tarapia Tapioco 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?
>
> $ su
> # crontab -e
>
> add this line:
> * * * * * killall -9 sh
>
they may well kill more than one really wants.........
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