Greping ps to kill rogue process?

[littlebigman]

Hello

A friend of mine runs a Debian host and uses CRON to start a PHP script regularly to download the weather for his location, but sometimes, the script goes haywire, so he'd like to run a CRON job to grep through ps, and kill this program if it's been running for eg. 20mn.

I know that the real solution is to find out why the PHP script goes crazy in the first place, but he needs this ASAP.

Anybody knows what SH/BASH commands to include in a script to do this?

Thank you.

[littlebigman]

I think I found it:

killall -9 myscript.phpcli

Otherwise, there this:

kill -9 `ps ax | grep myscript.phpcli | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`