Scylla and Charybdis, checkrun - Tools

The tools are developed under Linux with ESR's paradigm release early, release often in mind.
So you can consider this beta software, or alpha, or pre-alpha, or even worse ;)

Have a look in the download directory for all downloads.
As always here, all you get is the source. No binaries here.

checkrun 0.0.2-20090110-081959

Program watchdog to terminate a program with starving output (look into latest version, download latest version 0.0.2-20090110-081959, sig)

Checkrun runs a program and checks, if it did some output within a given time interval. If no output can be detected, the child will be terminated, first with a HUP, then a TERM and afterwards a KILL.

In a distant future all this functionality here might be implemented into my "timeout" tool as well, however I needed this feature before timeout had this feature. If you need to test a pipe for silence, use /bin/cat as program, or try the "timeout" tool.

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License and Disclaimer All you can see here is free software according to the GNU GPL. Copyright (C)2000-2011 by Valentin Hilbig Note that the software comes with absolutely no warranty of any kind. You use the software at your own risk. Valentin Hilbig cannot be hold responsible for any unintended damage, lost data or malfunction of the software you can find here.