----- "Scott Ehrlich" <scott at MIT.EDU> wrote: > I want to keep track of how long a task is running. Thinking it > wouldn't > take that long, I opted not to run time before it. The fact that it > is > taking a long time, if I revisit the machine in the morning, what > would be > the best way to find out what time it ended? > > In this case, I'm using mt to erase an lto3 tape - sudo mt -f /dev/st0 > > erase. But I'd like to use the knowledge from this question to track > > other events, too. > > I feel like I should know this answer, but cannot think of the > solution at > the moment. > > Thanks. > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. Dunno, maybe you could check for the existance of /proc/$PID every 10 seconds or so from a shell script. And then note when $PID disappeared ? or run strace on the process and write the output to a tmp file. The last update of the logfile should coincide with the process ending. Those are my best shots early on a saturday morning ! Cheers. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.