Jussi Hirvi wrote: > How could I make a script time out after nn minutes, if it's not finished by > then? > I put this little test script together. It seems to work OK... #!/bin/bash timeoutseconds=5 pid=$$ (echo Will kill $pid in $timeoutseconds seconds; sleep $timeoutseconds; kill -1 $pid) & while true do echo Hello sleep 0.6 done You may need to vary the signal in the kill statement, depending on what you're running. Ian