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Use the timeout command to limit runtime of client in cron script #41

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kylape opened this issue Nov 22, 2017 · 2 comments
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Use the timeout command to limit runtime of client in cron script #41

kylape opened this issue Nov 22, 2017 · 2 comments

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kylape commented Nov 22, 2017

We want to have a hard limit to the amount of time the client can run in case of a runaway subprocess.
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kylape commented Feb 2, 2018

Done for RHEL 7 via a watchdog timer (10m timeout) in #47

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d-hat commented Feb 6, 2018

Adding a comment by the Popen call in run_phase to make it clear that runtime is limited by the unit file is probably a good idea, at least to save future devs redunant work.

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