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Prevent a certain program from running too long in bash
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:date: 2012-06-13 09:45
:author: Russell Ballestrini
:tags: Code, DevOps
:slug: prevent-a-certain-program-from-running-to-long-in-bash
:status: published
**Update** - I opensourced this script here: `bash kira <https://github.com/russellballestrini/bash-kira>`__
I came up this this script to kill certain programs after they run for
too long. This works like similar to a timeout. Warning this script is
pretty harsh and kills the program.
::
#!/bin/bash
PROGRAM=replace-with-program-name
PIDSFILE=/tmp/kill-these.pids
for pid in `pidof $PROGRAM`
do
if grep -q $pid $PIDSFILE
then
kill $pid
fi
done
> $PIDSFILE
for pid in `pidof $PROGRAM`
do
echo $pid >> $PIDSFILE
done
Then I wrote a cronjob to kill hung programs:
::
* * * * * /usr/local/sbin/killprogs.sh
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