Hi On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 06:43:20PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all, > > I need add to my script a notify if a process take more than X time, > so using ps I can see what time take a process: > > ps -ao cmd,etime|grep backup > /bin/sh ./backup 03:44:55 > > what's the easy way to do a notify by email? > > redirect output of ps to file and use sed for analize the past time, > next verify with if/then or there's a better way? > > any idea?
Hm.. I don't know how to do the notify bit, but you *can* send a signal to the offending process if it takes more than a certain time - the command you need for this is "timeout" (part of GNU coreutils). This is handy for killing off processes that get "stuck"... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140127183000.GA27891@hawking
