I've seen this done in perl cgi scripts to prevent them from taking too
long - put the following in your script, right after the #!/usr/bin/perl
alarm(6);
If the program is still running after 6 seconds it will send an SIGALRM
signal to itself and die. You might want to define a handler, and catch it
to do cleanup, then exit.
hth
charles
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Reiner Rusch wrote:
> I'm wondering if it's possible to kill processes automatically (as a
> cron-job?).
> I've managed to setup Linux and Apache and now I tried to kill the machine
> by executing several processes to find out, how the machine reacts. I wrote
> a little perl script (cgi) that calls itself. My provider has the option
> that a primary process (not a child-process via fork-- lol!) would be killed
> after 6 seconds. That's -perhaps- to little time (especially for
> search-engines!), but it would made sense! So, my problem is, how to make
> the engine safe? Perhaps that it kills routines, called by "nobody" after 1
> or 2 minutes! And what about child-processes or routines called by the
> primary process (is this different?)?
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