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Old 05-12-2005, 07:51 PM   #1
fetusba
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looking for a time[d]killer : )

i'm looking for a program which can kill a process after some time....something like a timer and when it reaches 0 it kill's a process.
ex. i want to kill process httpd in one hour from now..

thanks for any help
 
Old 05-12-2005, 08:57 PM   #2
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Hi.

The easiest way would be to script it. e.g.:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
sleep 3600
killall httpd
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