On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Yuval Hager <yu...@avramzon.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > cron gives me a great way to start jobs at a given time. I am looking for a > way to stop jobs in a similar manner. > > My use case is an rsync job I would like to run during the night > (midnight-6am). My thought was to simply save the pid somewhere when the > job > starts, and kill it when it should end. Are there more elegant solutions? > Maybe something similar to rc initscripts start/stop scheme? > There's The Fault Tolerant Shell[1], that assumes that running for too long is 'a fault', which you might use. -- Shimi [1] http://www.cse.nd.edu/~ccl/software/ftsh/
