Need method of killing shell script at 8:00am

yucklawyers · 01-17-2010, 03:05 PM

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.

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tronayne · 01-17-2010, 03:22 PM

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.

colucix · 01-17-2010, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by tronayne

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.

tronayne · 01-18-2010, 07:17 AM

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...

evo2 · 01-18-2010, 07:34 AM

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.

cola · 01-18-2010, 07:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yucklawyers

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.

?

You can do some search with cron.