Re: [htdig-dev] Concerning FTP access / mirroring

[J. op d. B. <MSQ...@st...>]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Geoff Hutchison wrote:

> Of course if someone knows how you could do some sort of 
> timeout/alarm in the update script, that would solve the problem. I 
> could even stick the mirror scripts as examples on the website.


Something like:

<command> &
sleep <seconds>
if <command> still on ps list, then kill it.


Found this on a list:

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  command &
  sleep 20
  if [ $(ps -p $! | wc -l ) -eq 2 ]; then echo "ERROR"; else echo "OK"; fi
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--jesse
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