Re: coming out of perl script after 10 min.

[moritz]

alarm sounds like the right approach here. So you need to show your code (reduced to the relevant part) here, otherwise we can't know what's wrong with it.

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[venky4289]

#!/usr/bin/perl

eval {

   local %SIG;
   $SIG{ALRM}=
     sub{ die "timeout reached, after 20 seconds!\n"; };
   alarm 20;
   print "sleeping for 60 seconds\n";
   #sleep 60; # This is where to put your code, between the alarms
   $x=<stdin>;
   alarm 0;
};

alarm 0;

if($@) { print "Error: $@\n"; }

exit(0);

Here we should enter some input, but my requirement is if the input is not enetered in 20 sec, it should come out of the program(Exit the program).

[moritz]

but my requirement is if the input is not enetered in 20 sec, it should come out of the program(Exit the program).

And that's what the program does (as far as I can tell; but hard to tell, since it is formatted so badly here). Which is why I wonder what your actual question is.