Re: bash scripting..simple question

["grottoBoy rant" <stylerzz@hotmail.com>]

sleep will do what you want, i think.

I'm slow to give you the code, but the thought process is:
sleep 600 seconds
grep output from ps aux for the ssh login attempt maybe, if it hasn't exited 
then kill the process and continue running the script, maybe?

your earlier code will have to make sure that ssh process exits properly on 
successful completion...




----Original Message Follows----


is there a way, in a bash script, to do something like:
execute "this_command these_params"
--if-its-not-done-in-600-seconds-then-kill-it-and-return-an-error-code

situation is, i have a simple script that logs into remote boxes, and
does some checks.
it first pings each box to see if the route is up, if that fails it
wont even try to log in.
but sometimes, a box can be pinged but not logged into, for various
reasons.
in these cases, the ssh login attempt seems to just sit there and
doesnt timeout, and the whole script hangs, waiting until ssh exits.
which i have observed to take at times HOURS, at times it _never_ exits.

any suggestions?

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