Automatically kill cron scripts that fail to finish #38

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opened 2024-06-02 22:13:38 +02:00 by lukas · 1 comment
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Sometimes a backup cron script might fail to execute because it gets stuck. A way to let this script be killed after ~4h would be great to keep zombie processes from existing.

Sometimes a backup cron script might fail to execute because it gets stuck. A way to let this script be killed after ~4h would be great to keep zombie processes from existing.
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Solved using timeout <time-interval> <command> in crontab file

Solved using `timeout <time-interval> <command>` in crontab file
lukas closed this issue 2024-06-03 16:52:01 +02:00
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