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Too big delay with xscreensaver on wrong password in OpenSUSE 12.2
There is too big delay when logging in with xscreensaver in OpenSUSE 12.2
--- Actual delay is 10 seconds, but not found anywhere in configs
Already done:
checked pam timeout in login.defs (3 ...
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How to constraint time a program runs in Linux?
I have several simulations to do, each is invoked with python simulate.py <parameter list>. The problem with these simulations is that some of them hang without quiting, which prevents me from ...
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How to mount a Truecrypt container with a timeout from the command line?
I'm mounting a truecrypt container via the command line (i.e. truecrypt file dir). Is there any way to have truecrypt automatically unmount the container after a given amount of inactivity in dir?
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SSH connection timing out
I am trying to connect to an external host that is living in the Internet.
From my laptop I can ssh fine. From an Ubuntu 12.10 server, the connection times out.
Since they're in the same network, ...
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FTP timeout FIRST time
I'm using PureFTPd on MacOSX (Snow Leopard, not server version). When trying to access the FTP account from the outside via dyndns (e.g. using https://www.wormly.com/test_ftp_server) the connection ...
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How to introduce timeout for shell scripting?
I want to run a shell script that got a loop in it and it can go for ever which I do not want to happen. So I need to introduce a timeout for the whole script.
How can I introduce a timeout for the ...
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SSH to machines in new subnet - connection timeout
I'm using RHEL4 and RHEL5.
A new group of Linux machines are setup recently using 172.16.32.0/24. The existing RHEL machines are running on 172.16.1.0/22 and 172.16.4.0/22. When I try to ssh from ...
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named does't start when using systemctl
I am having trouble getting named to start using systemd on the Fedora 18 Raspberry Pi spin. It starts, then a few moments later there is a timeout and it fails. If I run the commands in named.service ...
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What is the difference between ping -w and ping -W?
What is the -w (deadline) flag in ping for? I cannot find a description of it in the ping man page; only for -W, which takes seconds as a parameter. What is the difference between them, and how can I ...
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mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (rv=2002) causes 30 seconds freezing
I/O to my software RAID6 often freezes for around 30 seconds after which everything is back to normal.
After the freeze is over this is put into syslog:
Mar 14 18:43:57 server kernel: [35649.816060] ...
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Timeout `idql` command in ksh
I probably read all the threads in almost all the forums for a solution to my need. I am a beginner in shell scripting and I dont have a perfect solution yet. Below is my code snippet.
idql -n ...
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why slight delay after failed login in tty [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why a wrong password gives a big delay
Whenever I mistype my password when logging in in a tty, I have noticed that I have to wait for a second before I'm able to log in ...
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MySQL Linux Client Timeout/Keepalive
Is there a way to set a keepalive in the command-line MySQL client on Linux?
Our network recently moved to a VLAN setup, and our systems department no longer has control of the firewall. The ...
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Timeout doesn't occur when reading from fifo using `read`
Look at this code:
while read -t 3 line; do
echo ${line}
done < /opt/data.log
data.log is a fifo. One process is writing to this, and this code should be reading it to show to the user. But ...
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How to disable timeout of password prompt for partition decryption during boot?
I have a computer running OpenSUSE 12.1, 64-bit, default install.
How it works currently:
I turn on the computer
It goes through the boot process
At some point during boot, I am asked for password ...
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Execute command for x seconds? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Run a command for a specified time and then abort if time exceeds
Is there a command which allows me to execute another command for at most x seconds?
Imagined example: ...
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Run a command for a specified time and then abort if time exceeds
I want know how I can run a command for a specified time say, one minute and if it doesn't complete execution then I should be able to stop it.
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From shell, killing a process if wallclock runtime exceeds some predetermined value
I want to start a process from a shell script, allow it to interact with the user (so I cannot just background it, grab the PID, launch sleep followed by sanity checks and kill), but if it is still ...
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How to kill a command started over SSH - the SSH connection lost
If I use
timeout 10 ssh -n -o BatchMode=yes 1.1.1.1 'sleep 20' > 1.1.1.1.txt 2>&1 &
To give out a remote command on a server, and I kill the SSH connection after 10 seconds, then I ...
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Timing out in a shell script
I have a shell script that's reading from standard input. In rare circumstances, there will be no one ready to provide input, and the script must time out. In case of timeout, the script must execute ...
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Kill process when it stops to produce further output
Is there a shell tool which can probe if a subprocess is still producing output, and otherwise kill it after a specified timeout?
I'm using offlineimap for Gmail backup, but that's very very very ...
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How long is a TCP local socket address that has been bound unavailable after closing?
On Linux (my live servers are on RHEL 5.5 - the LXR links below are to the kernel version in that), man 7 ip says:
A TCP local socket address that has been bound is unavailable for some time after ...
