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Pass-through pipe with timeout
How can I implement a timeout when no data is being passed through a pipe? It would act as watchdog with following usage:
process1 | watchdog --timeout 60 | process2
When no data pipes through I ...
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FreeBSD pkg installation operation timed out error
I'm trying to install some packages in FreeBSD. I got this timed out error during installation of gnome3 also.Now I'm trying to install Firefox and again same error. Can anyone give me solution for ...
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Tcpdump - counting outgoing and incoming UDP packets
Is it possible with tcpdump to count (for some set up time) the number of outgoing and incoming UDP packets?
I don't have much experience in tcpdump, so an advice how to do that would be very helpful....
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SSH failing 9/10 times
I have a Raspberry Pi that I run headless, and up until now it has worked fine. Now, however, when I SSH in, it times out before a connection is established 9 out of 10 times. I know I am pointing to ...
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SSH-like session that survives physical network disconnection
I want my SSH login session to remain connected after the computer goes to sleep and wakes up. From what I understand TCP can survive intermittent network problems, so can I change settings so that it ...
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bash syntax - wrapping command inside sudo :: tail logs until string found with timeout using Terraform
Goal: using sudo execute a one line cmd to tail a log until a string is found and then exit 0. If the string is not found within a given timeout, exit anything but 0.
Attempted Solution 1: ...
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Return status of Busybox `timeout` command
I'm writing a shell script that's supposed to function on various different distributions, some of which are using busybox and some are not.
This script uses the timeout command to figure whether a ...
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Dell Bluetooth keyboard, keep getting 'Page Timeout'
I recently got a Dell bluetooth keyboard, and I haven't had any luck with getting it to connect. I've tried with both the Blueman manager and with the process recommended here (https://forums....
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What is default value of ServerAliveInterval?
I’m using Amazon Linux,
[davea@mymachine ~]$ uname -a
Linux mymachine.mydomein.org 4.4.35-45.83.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 27 22:37:49 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
In my /etc/ssh/...
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Can't ssh to myself through internet?
I'm trying to connect to myself through ssh. (For testing purpose). I'm on a Ubuntu laptop. I successfully launched a ssh serveur, and "ssh localhost" works fine. If I try "ssh ", it works too. (I got ...
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SSH only works/keeps alive while ping running in background
A brand new linux box running Ubuntu 16.04.1 (LTS) Server was installed into a Citrix VM. It was set up with openSSH.
When connecting to it via, it will timeout. This happens even immediately after I ...
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NFS caches expiring unexpectedly
fellows!
I have been struggling with this challenge all day now so I was hoping someone could kindly lend me a hand here.
Goal: To build a NFS4 + CacheFilesd setup on a high latency, low throughput ...
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How to get the output of timeout command without using a shell script
I am using a ssh command executor in java which runs the command and gets the output in stderr, stdout and an integer exit value. I am trying run a command with timeout like,
timeout 5s COMMAND
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Cp default timeout limit [closed]
I have a script that creates and copies a file to multiple machine on a network.
Sometimes a machine or two may be down, which in turn causes the cp to take a really long time to timeout.
My ...
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Restart systemd service when output is no longer generated
Is it possible to restart a systemd service when there is no output generated for a predefined amount of time?
I have a script which apparently can hang, but that is not detected by systemd (or ...
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Linux - Cannot connect using ssh key
I used to connect normally to the website on digitalocean using ssh keys and it works normally. Currently I tried to connect and suddenly I keep getting: ssh_exchange_identification: read: Operation ...
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Is an SSH connection timeout expected when iptables is set to REJECT?
We’re setting up a firewall for a machine that should allow:
incoming SSH connections from particular IP addresses;
ICMP, except for redirect.
We’ve opted to use REJECT over DROP, at least until we’...
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POSIX equivalent for GNU timeout?
The GNU coreutils timeout command is extremely handy for certain scripting situations, allowing for using the output of a command if it is quick to run, and skipping it if it would take too long.
How ...
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How to find and edit “Apache timeout”?
I'm trying to view the default value of Apache timeout of my server, but I found nothing about that in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf . So where is " timeout " supposed to be and how do I change its value ...
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How to restart script or reboot if FFMPEG / AVCONV get stuck?
I am using AVCONV to stream my webcam on Dailymotion, here is the command :
avconv -f video4linux2 -s 853x480 -i /dev/video0 -f flv -b 800k -r 14 rtmp://publish.dailymotion.com/publish-dm/xxx
I run ...
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Apache Load Balancer Timeout
We have two httpd servers running on RHEL 6 behind a hardware load balancer
We are getting timeout errors in our httpd error log.
[Fri Feb 19 15:06:49.823372 2016] [proxy_http:error] [pid 15760] (...
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How does an SSH connection become inactive?
I have setup an SSH connection to run a program on a remote server. The program prints debug information on the terminal every 10 seconds. If I leave the SSH windows open for a long time (say 10 hours)...
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timeout when initiating a sshfs connection
I have following line in /etc/fstab
192.168.1.10:/data /mnt/data fuse.sshfs rw,noauto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,_netdev
and following line in /etc/rc.local:
mount /mnt/data
During boot process, the ...
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timeout doesn't work with accumulo shell in bash script
I'm trying to check if a scan of an Accumulo table times out (to see if the table is corrupted).
#!/bin/bash
timeout -s KILL 20s accumulo shell -zi myInstance -u root -p secret -e "scan -np -t ...
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Creating a manual delay (30 seconds) on server side (VSFTPD ) - while a bash client sends to it some files using curl
I have created a shell script in ubuntu that connects to a vsftp server using curl and transfer some files.
In my testing 3 files and each file will take 0.3 seconds to get transferred (very fast to ...
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Tracking where the script stopped after timeout
I've got a shell script doing connection performance test, that I timeout if it takes too long.
Upon timeout, it logs the results of a few commands so I can make myself an idea of the system status ...
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run a programm with timeout sending multiple signals in different times
i need to run a programm with timeout with multiple time limits and different signals for the limits.
for example:
run nano with timeout sending SIGTERM after 5s and after 10s SIGKILL
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Apache keeps loading the page
If the www directory is mounted from another server through NFS and there is some problem on NFS server , ( some NFS related service is stuck or stopped) , in the mean time if some page is accessed , ...
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How to extract all links from a given url in a decent time
I'm trying to extract the links from a specified url and redirect them to a file.
At first I tried using --spider , this is my code:
wget --spider --force-html -m http://file/path 2>&1 | grep ...
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systemctl keeps timing out on service restart
I'm running CentOS 7.2; see below:
# systemctl stop firewalld
Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was ...
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Postfix cannot start but dovecot is ok
My postfix service cannot start.
Here is message:
Job for postfix.service failed. See 'systemctl status postfix.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
And here is service status:
postfix....
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Apache SSL timeout is not matching settings
I have a CentOS 6.7 apache Server version: Apache/2.4.7 (Unix) server with both http and https ports configured. They are configured the same, except for the SSL specific settings.
The most relevant ...
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Kali 2.0 Reaver 1.5.2 EAPOL request times out error (code: 0x02)
Hi and thanks very much in advance for any help. I am new to Kali and reaver and am encountering an issue with EAPOL requests getting stuck.
To explain the whole situation, reaver itself won't ...
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java frameworks ( tomcat, jboss ), tcpip, session expiration
We have in house linux servers from different vendors, so each server has a different distro ( rhel, centos, debian, ubuntu ) and tomcat or jboss.
With some web application, if the logged user ( ...
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Timeout procedure for using to much memory or cpu
How hard is it to create some kind of timeout procedure for using to much memory or cpu on a linux/unix server? What would you have to do to do this?
This happens WAY to often. I understand you may ...
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Give script time to execute, if exceeded, stop it
Is this possible, to give max time in seconds to script for execution?
for example, i have script, that pings some network. Usually, it takes about 10 seconds, but if execution takes more than 10 ...
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timeout, breaking pipes and wc
I had an idea to quickly benchmark some decompression programs. E.g. for gz, I would run the command:
timeout 10 zcat foo.gz | wc -c
Which would measure the amount of data the decompressor could ...
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Run and stop a monitoring command as sudo for s seconds every m minutes
I want to run sudo airodump-ng -w myfile every ten minutes or so, for m minutes. It does not matter if the running time shifts (that it, if it runs m minutes later each time).
Notice that this is a ...
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Batch timeout alternative?
What I need is an 80 seconds sleep, that I could skip by hitting a key.
Being able to see the remaining time would be a plus.
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'Unbusy' terminals which will be logged out when TMOUT is reached
I would like auto-logout some terminal sessions with a TMOUT (timeout) configuration, but in that case the users leave a program opened for which the 'unbusy' sign is the ZERO I/O between server and ...
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Silently timeout command in zsh
This is an oft-asked question:
Superuser/loop-start-program-and-kill-after-time-out
SO/bash-script-that-kills-a-child-process-after-a-given-timeout
SO/bash-run-a-process-for-limited-time-period
SO/...
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Why does oot say “hey” in usleep -o?
On a Centos 6.6 box I noticed this...
[root@abcd /]# usleep --help
Usage: usleep [microseconds]
-v, --version Display the version of this program, and exit
-o, --oot oot says hey!
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Huge delay in script response when using SFTP with expect
I am using a script to call SFTP service to fetch some logs from the remote server. This works fine in normal scenario but, i have noticed a very long delay of around 30 minutes or more in some of the ...
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read only TMOUT variable – workaround to disable automatically exit shell when there is no activity
We have here a read only Bash variable. I am not allowed to unset that variable.
$ echo $TMOUT
1800
As a workaround I wrote those lines (that my session don't exit)
#!/usr/bin/perl
$|++;
while (1) ...
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How to run `clear_console` in Bash when TMOUT happens?
How do I tell Bash to run a clear_console when the session is closed because of TMOUT?
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Simulate PostgreSQL query timeout
I would like to test the behaviour of a program which executes queries to a PostgreSQL server in case of a query timeout.
How could I simulate that?
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How to avoid system timeout to login screen when I make a cup of tea?
Linux Mint 17.1 (MATE) running on HP G250 Laptop and older HP desktops. It's just me and the dog at home and I like to run the computer all day, but it keeps returning to the login screen after a few ...
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Timeout function return value
I'm using the timeout function on debian to wait 5 seconds for my script.
Works great but the problem I have is that I need a return value. Like
1 for timeout and
0 for no timeout
How am I going to ...
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Using GNU timeout when redirecting stdout to file
Suppose I have a executable which for which I want to log STDOUT and STDERR to separate files, like so:
python write.py > out 2> err
When I use this command with GNU timeout, my out file is ...
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How to set Timeout for an ssh command and also get back the result of remote commands
I have a script that runs on bash, in an RHEL server that connects to thousands of nodes and returns with the values of some 5 executed commands - It collects info from RHEL Servers only.
It works ...
