Automatic way of terminating a program

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 23:37 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> Is there some automatic way of terminating a program at a previously
> specified time?

You can use "at" to schedule a job to run at some point in time.  And
you can use "/usr/bin/killall some-process-name" to kill it.  So,

	echo "/usr/bin/killall fred" >/tmp/killfred
	at -f /tmp/killfred 14:30

should do it.

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