Taming Your Daemons With PSMon Sep 2, 2008, 19 :33 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (5124 reads) (Other stories by Ben Martin)
"The TTL directive is handy to ensure that processes that are meant to complete within a known amount of time have done so. For example, you can limit the updatedb command or the use of unison or find to a one-hour duration to stop them from running unchecked from a user's cron job:"