Can a perl script monitor another?

[xadio]

I have been having issues with some of my scripts hanging indefinitely
during operation and it will not do. My plan to fix this issue is to
create a script that will run these "troublesome" scripts and monitor
the elapsed time. If the given time constraint is exceeded then it
will kill the script it is running. Would this be possible?

Thanks,
Xadio

 

[Sherm Pendley]

I have been having issues with some of my scripts hanging indefinitely
during operation and it will not do. My plan to fix this issue is to
create a script that will run these "troublesome" scripts and monitor
the elapsed time. If the given time constraint is exceeded then it
will kill the script it is running. Would this be possible?

Yes.

sherm--

 

[Joe Smith]

I have been having issues with some of my scripts hanging indefinitely
during operation and it will not do.

I usually use a non-perl solution on systems that have 'expect'.

linux% cat /usr/bin/timed-run
#!/usr/bin/expect -f
# run a program for a given amount of time
# i.e. time 20 long_running_program
set timeout [lindex $argv 0]
eval spawn [lrange $argv 1 end]
expect