Timeout for a shell command?

[Mark Smith]

Jim, from the curl manual:

--connect-timeout <seconds>
               Maximum time in seconds that you allow  the   
connection  to  the
               server  to  take.   This  only limits the connection  
phase, once
               curl has connected this option is of no more use. See   
also  the
               -m/--max-time option.



-m/--max-time <seconds>
               Maximum time in seconds that you allow the  whole   
operation  to
               take.   This is useful for preventing your batch jobs  
from hang-
               ing for hours due to slow networks or links  going   
down.   This
               doesn't  work  fully  in win32 systems.  See also the  
--connect-
               timeout option.


Best,

Matk

On 24 Aug 2006, at 03:43, Jim Ault wrote:

> Currently I use a shell command to submit a curl -1 -k -d  to a  
> server and
> once every 3 to 4 days it will 'hang' waiting for a response.   
> There seems
> to be no timeout in effect.  Obviously I would like to know if  
> there is a
> way to adjust this, since the handler will behave as though it were  
> in an
> infinite loop.
>
> In the IDE version, cmd-period will interrupt this, but not sure  
> what will
> work in the compiled version.
>
> OSX 10.4.4.6, Mac mini solo, Rev 2.7.2
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
>
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