Limit rsync running time

Fabian Cenedese
2009-09-17T13:37:06Z

At 15:14 17.09.2009 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
>On Thu 17 Sep 2009, Fabian Cenedese wrote:
>>
>> Has anybody already written a bash script that would do something
>> like that? Are there other ways? I don't want to kill all rsync
>> processes as there might be other syncs going on.
>
>There is for example a "timeout" package available in Debian:
>
>Package: timeout
>Description: run a command with a time limit
> timeout executes a command and imposes an elapsed time limit. When the time
> limit is reached, timeout sends a predefined signal to the target process.
>Homepage: http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/tct.html

That would be what I need. But I have rsync running on a NAS with
BusyBox, so I'd need to cross-compile it. That's why I was looking
for a bash script.

If other people have the same need: I found a script on the net:
http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/jo/stories/320762/

Thanks

bye  Fabi