1. kill commands after a given time Run the given command, killing it with a SIGHUP or other signal after a specified amount of time. It forks a child process to kill the parent process and any children if still present. Package also includes the pushafter utility, which waits for a specified time before running the given command. Useful when managing global IRC networks via ssh, as in: pushafter 30s stopafter 600 hup ssh -n -l dancer $host uname -a From Debian 3.0r0 APT