bash command timeout 14
At $WORK I’m needing to maintain a backup system wherein our backup server a) starts an SSH process to stop-and-dump our CMS service, then b) SCPs the dumpfile back to the backup servers for writing to tape. I’ve discovered that the stop-and-dump part of the process would hang for 24 hours* when the stop-and-dump perl script exited but the initiating OpenSSH sshd process would not exit, preventing the SCP process from going forward.
I’ve decided to put a command timeout on the SSH process, and here’s how it looks in bash:
# Inspired by:
# http://www.ultranetsolutions.com/BASH-terminate-command-after-timeout.html
cmd_timeout() {
[ $# -eq 2 ] || die "cmd_timeout takes 2 arguments"
command=$1
sleep_time=$2
# run $command in background, sleep for our timeout then kill the process if it is running
# $! has the pid of the backgrounded job
$command &
cmd_pid=$!
# sleep for our timeout then kill the process if it is running
( sleep $sleep_time && kill $cmd_pid && echo "ERROR - killed $command due to timeout $sleep_time exceeded" ) &
killer_pid=$!
# 'wait' for cmd_pid to complete normally. If it does before the timeout is reached, then
# the status will be zero. If the killer_pid terminates it, then it will have a non-zero
# exit status
wait $cmd_pid &> /dev/null
wait_status=$?
if [ $wait_status -ne 0 ]; then
echo "WARNING - command, $command, unclean exit"
else
# Normal exit, detach and clean up the useless killer_pid
disown $killer_pid
kill $killer_pid &> /dev/null
fi
return $wait_status
}
cmd_timeout "ssh myhost some_long-running_command"
next_command
* but I ought to raise this on an openssh mailing list in case it’s a bug, but anyho…
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change if [ $wait_status -ne 0 ]; then to if [ $wait_status -eq 143 ]; then so the $killer_pid isn't left dangling if the command exits non-zero but isn't killed. otherwise, superb solution!
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