in reply to Self terminating a script after a specified time

Look at the Time::Limit module. It terminates the script after a given time. In your case, the usage would be: 

use Time::Limit '86400.0'; # terminate after 86400 seconds (24h)

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Could be just the thing you need.

- Luke

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Re^2: Self terminating a script after a specified time
by shardservant (Initiate) on Jan 08, 2015 at 13:45 UTC
    Looking at this.. My concern is what the exit code would be on self termination. If non zero, the automated scheduling system will flag this as a job failure which is not the intention.
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      Time::Limit sends the process a SIGTERM, which you can catch.The following exits with a zero exit code after 5 seconds:

      use Time::Limit -quiet, '5';

$SIG{TERM} = sub { exit 0 };

while(1) {}

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