On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:24:30AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > I have a shell script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that synchronizes the system > clock with time servers via rdate. Sometimes the servers can't be > reached, and the rest of my scripts are blocked. Is there a way to say: > "You have at most 10 seconds to complete this command, or fail"?
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PROG=do-this
TIMEOUT=10
$PROG &
REAPER=$!
sleep $TIMEOUT
if [ "$( ps h -p $REAPER -o ucmd )" == "$PROG" ]; then
kill $REAPER
fi
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not 100% failsafe, but close.
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