Adjust to suit your needs.  Currently this would kill any whois process running for more than 30 seconds or more than 1 minute.

Add it as a cronjob.  The motivation is that some commands have no timeout and just end up using up CPU and memory for no reason while never exiting to free resources.

#!/bin/bash
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
for pid in `ps aux|grep whois`; do

    echo "pid=::$pid::"
    id=`echo "$pid"|awk '{print $2}'`
     echo "id=$id"
    runningseconds=`echo "$pid"|awk '{print $10}'|cut -f 2 -d ":"`
    runningminutes=`echo "$pid"|awk '{print $10}'|cut -f 1 -d ":"`

    echo "running seconds=$runningseconds"

    if [ $runningseconds -gt 30 ] || [ $runningminutes -gt 1 ]; then
        echo "seconds running is greater than 30 or minutes greater than 1"
        echo "kill -9 $id"
        kill -9 $id
    fi

done


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