On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 13:24 +0200, Tarapia Tapioco wrote: > > Very occasionally but often enough to be a pain, when there is an initial > > problem connecting to the internet, certain scripts hang up. Repeated > > attempts fail for whatever reason and "top" shows a long list of "sh" > > processes stuck around. > > > > While I do not know what script is responsible, my stuff, I can at least > > have > > some control over--how does one put a time-out limit on a bash script? > > $ su > # crontab -e > > add this line: > * * * * * killall -9 sh >
they may well kill more than one really wants......... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]