I am looking for a way to run the collect utility from a start date say today to next week and have the process kill itself. Collect does not have a command to specify a start date and an end date. An at job as far as I can find will start my job but there is no way to specify it to kill itself (unless I start another at job to do a kill -9 of the collect process on a certain date and time). What do you all think would be a good solution? Is there another solution?
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Hello,
I would use a second at job for killing the process.
There is the (manageable) problem of finding the PID.
Another way would be to run a script that
* starts collect in the background, and keeps the PID
* sleeps for a given time
* kills collect
hope this helps
I would use a second at job for killing the process.
There is the (manageable) problem of finding the PID.
Another way would be to run a script that
* starts collect in the background, and keeps the PID
* sleeps for a given time
* kills collect
hope this helps
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