If this is *NIX, be very, very careful before you type the word "killall" into your terminal session. Or arrange for cron to call it. On traditional UNIX systems, AIX in particular, it kills all processes except the one calling killall. Kills as in 'SIGKILL', not 'SIGTERM'. Be very, very careful.

A safer way would be to set up an 'at' job calling 'kill' with the PID of the running process, at the beginning of the script. Or just use Time::Limit. :)

- Luke

In reply to Re^2: Self terminating a script after a specified time by blindluke
in thread Self terminating a script after a specified time by shardservant

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