Automatic way of terminating a program

[Paul Smith]

Dear All

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

Thanks in advance,

Paul

[Jorge Fábregas]

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

[Rick Stevens]

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.

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[Keith]

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

[Paul Smith]

On 11/1/05, Keith  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

[Guillermo Garron]

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