Jussi Hirvi wrote:
Thanks - but I couldn't make that work as expected. It seems to kill *something*, but after that, the rsync part still continues in the background... Here's my last test:log='/root/log/rsync2' timeoutseconds=1 pid=$$ (sleep $timeoutseconds; echo `date '+%c'` " $0 INTERRUPTED" >>$log; kill -9 $pid) & /usr/bin/rsync -avzu --delete /root /home/palvelimet/bckserver1 echo `date '+%c'` " $0 valmis" >>$log
Try replacing the 'kill -9 $pid' with '/usr/bin/kill -s KILL -$pid' I've used something based on: <http://www.splode.com/~friedman/software/scripts/src/with-timeout> which seems to work fine James Pearson _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
