At 15:14 17.09.2009 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: >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
That would be what I need. But I have rsync running on a NAS with BusyBox, so I'd need to cross-compile it. That's why I was looking for a bash script. If other people have the same need: I found a script on the net: http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/jo/stories/320762/ Thanks bye Fabi -- 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
