Re: Warning: rsync is broken

alain williams wrote: 
> I use rsync for backups, this normally runs silently overnight. I did not see
> the huge number of error messages as rsync also hung and the script did not end
> and thus send me email.

You can solve this class of problems with the coreutils program
"timeout". It will run a given program and kill it if it is
still running after a configurable period of time.


-dsr-