On Thu 17 Sep 2009, Fabian Cenedese wrote: > > Has anybody already written a bash script that would do something > like that? Are there other ways? I don't want to kill all rsync > processes as there might be other syncs going on.
There is for example a "timeout" package available in Debian: Package: timeout Description: run a command with a time limit timeout executes a command and imposes an elapsed time limit. When the time limit is reached, timeout sends a predefined signal to the target process. Homepage: http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/tct.html So use that: $ timeout 7200 rsync .... That will kill rsync after 2 hours (7200 seconds). Paul -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
