runalarm - enforce a time limit on execution of a process

runalarm was written by Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@google.com>, based on some Python code by Craig Silverstein

       Sending SIGALRM to runalarm before the timer has expired will cause the subprocess to be killed.

       This program is copyright (C) 2000-2010 Google, Inc.

       It is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

Google, Inc.                                    October 18, 2010                                     RUNALARM(1)

runalarm tries to execute a command and, if the subprocess does not exit before a timer expires, tries to
       terminate that subprocess.  Otherwise, the exit status of the command is returned.

       runalarm - enforce a time limit on execution of a process

runlock(1), runstat(1)

runalarm [ -h ]

       runalarm [ -d ] [ -ttimeout ] command [ args ]

-d

              Debug mode; send log messages to standard error as well as to the system log.

       -ttimeout

              Specifies  the  duration, in seconds, for runalarm to allow the command to run.  The default is 1d
              duration (86400 seconds).

       -h

              Prints some basic help.