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Shell: Terminating Long-Running Processes


I’m sure everyone has had the experience of a server process that was created by some developer and continues to run indefinitely without ending. This script comes in handy in such situations. When you schedule it to run regularly with tools like crontab, it will terminate these seemingly never-ending processes for you. It’s similar to scripts like Terminating Excessive Apache (httpd) Child Processes and Listing Process Execution Directories.

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python script for confirmation of sending email


Here is the script of python for confirm sending email, which was used when I was establishing mail server on Amazon AWS EC2, on python 2.7.9.