Start and stop process

Ruby
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Hello,

I wrote a simple script to grab an audio stream and save it into a file.
I need to run this file 5 days a week, the process should record the
stream for ~ 2 hours. What is the best way to approach this problem?

I’m thinking of starting the process with a cron job, on a FreeBSD
server, but then what is the best way to control the process based on
time?

Panagiotis (atmosx) Atmatzidis

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I think cron is the best solution.

If you have it run for 2 hours, you could simply kill its PID, probably
from within the ruby script anyway.