Is it possible, in Solaris, to limit the time one certain process has to
run (example, after 10 minuts the process will die) ?

  Thanks

    Marco Gouveia

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#!/bin/sh
#
# Kills the program chosen by $1
#
# Usage:  killproc.sh <program to run>
#

# Amount of seconds to wait before killing the process.
wait=600

# Options for kill- for hard to kill programs
options="-9"

# Start the program in the background
$1 &

# Wait for a user selected amount of time
sleep $wait

# Kill the background process using any required options.
kill $options $!

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Obviously a lot more could be done to make it a great script, but it should take
care of a few situations.  The only trick here is the $! variable, which is the
PID of the most recent background job.

Hope it helps,

-Jon

With ksh, hard and soft cpu limits can be set by the ksh shell build-in
ulimit command :

ulimit -St 120 # soft process limit 2 minutes.

The command is described in the ksh man pages : man ksh

ksh is normally distributed by Sun, so the command should
work that way, but as I do use Solaris for long now, I can't
be sure 100% ...

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JM Chenais SIC/SE-EPFL