TL;DR
- OpenBSD 7.0 released!
- No more packages updates for 6.9, syspatch will still be published
- No more syspatches for 6.8, it is now end of life and shouldn't be used anymore
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+OpenBSD 7.0 comes with a new utility named timeout to run a command and stop it after an user defined time. The man page is available for full information.
While it was possible to achieve this in shell using a child process sleeping for some time and stopping the main process if it wasn't finished yet, timeout makes this job very easy.
One simple real world use case would be a lazy site-to-site synchronization using a rsync job run every night when the Internet uplink can be fully used and stop it right before people will need the network. Such a scenario can be done with timeout 8h rsync -a /data/ remote:/data/
and started from a cron job at 00h00. In this case rsync would run at midnight and timeout would stop it at 8h00 if the job is not finished.
Nice! - - jcs@openbsd + - jcs@openbsd
+Boredom is a powerful driving force. - — solene@openbsd + — solene@openbsd+