Add stop crawling feature?

[gitressa]

If you manually start Fink, you can just stop it with Ctrl+Z, but if you start it for example via cron, this is not possible. Perhaps add a command which stops after checking a set number links, or after running for a specific number of seconds?
--close_itemcount
--close_timeout

[gitressa]

I still think this would be a great feature :-)

Extra info: Use Ctrl+C if you start the crawler in a bash script, and want to stop the crawler, but let it complete the script, like send a report by mail. For more see What is the difference between Ctrl-z and Ctrl-c in the terminal?