Sorry, I should have been clearer. Let's say you run the monitor in cron every 10 minutes:

• try to open /tmp/monitor_info
• if non-existent, generate pid/procname list, write to /tmp/monitor_info and exit
• read file data into array/hash
• generate pid/procname list using aforementioned ps command
• compare lists. If same pair shows up in both, kill it (it's been running longer than 10 minutes).
• write new list to /tmp/monitor_info

Adjust cron interval to be a time comfortable to ensuring that process is broken. It is a little more complicated if you have processes that have different 'comfort intervals', but you could simply include a count to each line in /tmp/monitor_info to manage this.

This script is short and easy. Does that make sense?

fnord

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