I am running a very long perl script under Apache 2.0.48 with Suse.

The script crawls web pages and analyses them. In order to avoid overloading the server/s these pages come from it has been agreed that there will be a short pause between each page request. This makes the script run for even longer.

The first server my employers put me on stopped the script after a couple of hours as a precaution against 'run away' scripts, for example; those in infinite loops.

This is, of course, a sensible precaution but as I could not over-ride this I was moved to a new, dedicated, server where we could, supposedly, configure things to avoid this timing problem.

The new server is now ending the script after approximately five minutes!

Is there a way to avoid this problem in a similar manner to how PHP allows you to set runtime variables within a script or must I wait until the server admin. guy has had a look?

Thanks for any light you can shed on this.

Chris.

In reply to Script Timeout Settings? by ChrisJ-UK

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