Need method of killing shell script at 8:00am
 

Have a simple shell script which just runs rsync overnight. The script launches rsync, and loops until rsync returns zero or it's killed by ctrl-C.

Need a method to kill it at 8:00am every morning.

Centos 5.4, rsync v3.0.7.

?

Well, at will do it one time, cron will do it every day.

Hint: you'll need the PID of the running script and you get that with ps -e, piping that into grep or fgrep with the name of the script then then into awk to print the PID subsequently used with kill.

Or just use pkill. ;)

Wow, pgrep and pkill; never heard of 'em before but they sure do look like a useful alternative.

Learn sumptin new every other day or so...

Could you post the script (a stripped down version)? If you are doing what I think you are doing, it will be easy for the script to exit itself just by checking the time in each loop iteration.

Cheers,

Evo2.

You can do some search with cron.