Re: script keeps getting "terminated" after about 6 minutes

In article <a88a938f-7dbc-4458-9d67-6771a5ec3a71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bennett Haselton <bennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 22, 5:50 pm, Unruh <unruh-s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bennett Haselton <benn...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

scripts that I'm pretty sure I've seen run for more than 6 minutes
without getting killed.  I wonder if the VPS "knows" that this script
is sending mail and that's why it kills it.  (Perhaps as some bone-
headed measure to stop customers "spamming"?  But obviously that
wouldn't do any good, since I can stop and restart the script as many
times as I need to, to send the mails!)

It is possible. What signal is it receiving?

How would I tell?

You could make a bunch of traps, one for INT, one for TERM, and so on,
that do nothing more than print "Received TERM signal" (or whatever) and
the time. That would actually solve two problems at once -- it'd tell
you what the signal is, and it wouldn't die.

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