Another possible solution, since you mentioned the system() call, is to make it a one liner, 
ps -lf | grep "user" |  perl -ane '($h,$m,$s) = split /:/,$F[13]; kill
+ 9, $F[3] if ($h > 1);'

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You can change the criteria for killing the process, but in this case I pick any with a TIME greater than 1 hour.

Though, this will be dependent on the particulars of the 'ps' command on your flavor of unix, most notably whether it's a BSD or SySV flavor. BSD has the -u option to select only those processes for a user, but the other does not which is why I typically just use grep "username".

If your particular ps is different, you'll only have to change the indexes into @F. In the above case, the TIME is at index 13 in the format "00:00:00" and the PID of the process is index 3 and is just an integer.

In reply to Re: Script for Killing Process of Long Running Time in Linux/Unix by tuxz0r
in thread Script for Killing Process of Long Running Time in Linux/Unix by monkfan

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