[PATCH] time limit

John Taylor john at fcs.uga.edu
Tue Apr 20 19:15:34 GMT 2004


On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:23:56AM -0400, Brian McEntire wrote:
> I didn't write the patch, so I can only beg  :-) ...
> 
> That patch will be very useful to me too! 
> 
> To the patch author: would it be much more trouble to specify a stop time
> rather than just a delay? If I want to backup a varying number of systems
> from cron and limit them to "off hours", the --time-limit patch should go
> a long way, but if there was a --stop-at or similar, it might be even
> easier to implement.
> 

Good idea!  I am writing this code now, but it will not be ready for another
couple of days.

-John


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