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Automatic way of terminating a program

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Paul Smith

Monday, 31 October 2005 Mon, 31 Oct '05

5:37 p.m.

Dear All Is there some automatic way of terminating a program at a previously specified time? Thanks in advance, Paul

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Jorge Fábregas

Monday, 31 October Mon, 31 Oct

5:52 p.m.

On Monday 31 October 2005 7:37 pm, Paul Smith wrote:

Is there some automatic way of terminating a program at a previously specified time?

You can use the "at" command if it's going to be for something specific (not periodically): Try: at 4:10pm <ENTER> kill -15 `pidof myProcessName` <ENTER> <CTRL-D> You can specify as many commands you want after the "at" invocation and end it with a end-of-line (here invoked with CTRL-D). There are many ways to invoke the "at" command. Read the man page or google for it. HTH, Jorge

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Rick Stevens

5:53 p.m.

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 23:37 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:

Dear All Is there some automatic way of terminating a program at a previously specified time?

You can use "at" to schedule a job to run at some point in time. And you can use "/usr/bin/killall some-process-name" to kill it. So, echo "/usr/bin/killall fred" >/tmp/killfred at -f /tmp/killfred 14:30 should do it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens(a)vitalstream.com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Keith

6:04 p.m.

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 23:37 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:

Dear All Is there some automatic way of terminating a program at a previously specified time? Thanks in advance, Paul

http://linuxweblog.com/node/148 Best Regards, Keith -- The fact of the matter is, Linus, I've been penguin all my life, nobody needs to tell me how to be penguin. (o_ //\ V_/_ http://home.comcast.net/~kilowattradio/ Salem, OR Scanner Page

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Paul Smith

Tuesday, 1 November Tue, 1 Nov

4:56 a.m.

On 11/1/05, Keith <ac7xc1nx(a)comcast.net> wrote:

> Is there some automatic way of terminating a program at a previously > specified time? http://linuxweblog.com/node/148

Thanks to all for your very helpful answers. Paul

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Guillermo Garron

6:34 a.m.

Hi Paul, you can program a cronjob with crontab -e and insert there a kill sentence :) regards, Guillermo. Paul Smith wrote:

Dear All Is there some automatic way of terminating a program at a previously specified time? Thanks in advance, Paul

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