End cron job at certian time

[devilman0]

I am new to linux, so i apoligize in adavance.
I have redhat 9 setup. I have a cron job that runs seti@home at a certian time. In windows there is an option to stop the task if it runs for a length of time. I would like to do this. The task does run using the aforementioned cron job. Thanks in advance.

Thanks,
James

"Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot." ~bumper sticker

 

[jrjuiliano]

Don't know if there is anything off the bat, but you could create a script that will end the seti@home daemon...

Then just put an entry in your crontab file to run that script.

J.R.

 

[devilman0]

Hmm, will give that a try, thanks for your help.

Thanks,
James

"Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot." ~bumper sticker

 

[jstreich]

yeah, you can always write a shell script that

kill

s a process.