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From: mhg@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Mark H. Granoff)
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Subject: Re: run myprog/topcpu=? Clarification
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 08:00:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 08:00:30 1987
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>...
>What I would like to be able to do is say $ RUN MYPROGRAM/TOPCPU=50:30
>for example, so that myprogram will only run for 50 minutes, 30
>seconds of cpu. The time does not have to be dead on, anything
>reasonable close would be ok.
>...

How about setting the CPUTIME (in AUTHORIZE) for whatever account your
programs are running on to 50 minutes and 30 seconds (using delta
time)?  I would assume that once a job has reached this limit, it is
effectively logged out.

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