Questions tagged [timeout]
A command which runs a specified command for a given time, and then terminates it. See http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/timeout.1.html
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Exported Date Variable not appearing in subshell
I'm currently working on creating 2 bashes with two different scripts which result in two files named with the same timestamp for easy comparison/processing later. The date variable gets created in ...
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Cat blocking when piping output from /usr/bin/gssproxy (`timeout -k 1 1 /usr/bin/gssproxy | cat` does not terminate)
I use gssproxy under Arch Linux, in particular
Name : gssproxy
Version : 0.8.0-1
I encountered the following behavior: When trying to pipe the output of
/usr/bin/gssproxy
like ...
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Setting variable output from timeout
I'm trying to automatically query a status via telnet (this isn't something I'm able to work around in this case). The idea is to grep for something and assign the result to a variable, to pass to a ...
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How to timeout a program with a potentially infinite loop
Suppose I run a program that I suspect to contain an infinite loop, or some other code that might run for too long.
I know that in Linux I can do:
timeout 1 ./program
to give the program a time-out ...
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/sys/block/sd*/device/timeout not accurate
The default value for the timeout file for SCSI disks is 30, supposedly meaning 30s. In my dmesg logs, I find that the system is waiting 180s before timing out. Setting timeout to various values ...
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wget not downloading streaming mp3 correctly
I am trying to download a streaming mp3 using wget. this is my basic command:
wget http://sj128.hnux.com/sj128.mp3 -c --timeout=1 --waitretry=0 --tries=0 -O "file.mp3"
i have been doing this in a ...
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Stop netcat as soon as grep matches something
I am facing a problem using netcat in a bash script.
I would like to match a specific output after sending a command and continue the script execution as soon as possible (not waiting for a netcat ...
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Slow boot time after cloning disk and resizing partitions
I recently replaced an SSD with a larger SSD. I used Clonezilla to clone the old disk to the new one. After that I used GParted Live to resize the existing partition, pushing the swap partition to the ...
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Coreutils timeout(1) plays badly with man/less
I want to set a timeout to the less(1) command on our company's production server. Everyday we produce large log files on it, and despite the nightly batch job to archive/remove them, we sometimes get ...
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Combining timeout and cpulimit
I have a situation where a process that hangs under certain circumstances or runs for too long should be killed. Also I don't want the process to take 100% of the CPU time. I am thinking that I should ...
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Having lot of timeouts since Ubuntu Cosmic [closed]
I am having lots of network timeout since I upgraded to 18.10 which is installed in dual-boot with Windows which isn't getting none. Is there some kind of configuration to make Linux's packet ...
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Maximum timeout for process
I have a script which I think can take few days to finish. Basically it submits slurm jobs when queue isn't full and in the process it can wait a while.
The script results in incomplete results, ...
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Connection errors on Apache httpd proxy, but only for some vhost
I set up an Apache v2.4 reverse proxy on a CentOS 7 machine, serving requests to several vhosts; amongst these there are Atlassian application servers.
The proxy's private IP address is 10.0.0.77, ...
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Suggested improvements to stream-recording script: timeout?
I'm trying to adapt the script below (taken from https://superuser.com/questions/181517/how-to-execute-a-command-whenever-a-file-changes) to cause my system to record a video stream whenever a ...
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Is there a timeout for the networksetup command on macOS?
I want to set a 1 second timeout for networksetup so the command does not take longer than 2 seconds at most.
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Timeout subprocess pid
I'm using the timeout utility inside a bash script to run a command for a given time (e.g., timeout -s SIGINT 500s ./my_script).
I want to monitor the process myscript to see how much CPU/memory it ...
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The `read` builtin hangs indefinitely when used with `timeout`
The script below works perfectly with bash but not with sudo bash or sh. Pressing enter or ^C won't work. Only ^\ and ^Z work, but not with sudo bash.
printf '#!/bin/sh\nread var\n' > myscript
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Can we make ssh time out while waiting for a password
I have written a script that is expected to get a bunch of host names from some place and run a command on each of those hosts:
ssh "$host" some command
I have the necessary configuration to make ...
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How do I change dracut-initqueue timeout?
During boot, my CentOS 7 box yields a bunch of messages like [ 202.161851] myhost dracut-initqueue[381]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts and then drops me to a prompt. I ...
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Unable to start firefox on centOs 6 from iterm2 on mac
I have installed firefox and xauth on the centOs 6.6 server as follows:
sudo yum install firefox
sudo yum install xauth
On my mac, I am using iTerm2
On my iTerm2 session, I also exported my display ...
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Bash if command doesn't finish in X time?
I'm trying to run something like:
sudo dhclient $wifi || otherFunction
Problem is when dhclient fails it just hangs instead of throwing an error.
How can I re-write the above so dhclient is killed ...
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Curl request exits at five minutes unexpectedly
I'm using a shell script to fire off a curl request that deletes all documents of a certain type in my Elasticsearch cluster. If successful, Logstash starts and attempts to reindex the deleted type's ...
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Systemd timeout because it doesn't detect daemon forking
I'm currently developping a systemd daemon. The problem I'm facing is that the daemon is killed 1m30s after beeing launched because the forking is not detected.
I'm using the int daemon(int nochdir, ...
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Where is TMOUT being set in CentOS 7? How can I disable it?
I know I've tracked this down before but can't find the answer.
When I start a bash shell on CentOS 7 (from X Windows GNOME or KDE), the variable TMOUT is set which causes the shell to timeout after ...
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Timeouts between an API and an elasticsearch server every 2 hours
We are experiencing a weird issue on our servers. (Debian 8.9) We have an API which is a PHP application. It requests an elasticsearch which instance is on a separate server.
Every 2 hours, we are ...
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Timeout command breaks command that expects input
I need to execute a command with timeout so it's killed after X time.
I have done tests and it only works when typed in the terminal directly, when in a bash script it seems to not handle the user ...
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Trap does not catch SIGTERM in child script
I have two scripts. First one is basically wrapper that calls subscript and sets timeout.
#!/bin/bash
# wrapper_script
timeout --signal=SIGTERM 50 main_script.sh
And if execution of main_script.sh ...
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Can you interrupt a soft NFS mount or does it need to timeout?
I know that with hard mounts the only way to interrupt them is to use the intr option (which is now deprecated). For soft mounts, however, do you need to wait for the timeout or can you interrupt them?...
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bash timeout command kills randomly before duration
I'm trying to show thumbnails from youtube for specific timeout to user and then show next one
I made this command:
while read line; do\
wget -O- -q "$line" | \
timeout 10s display ;\
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Generate random number for x amount of time in BASH
I would like to generate random numbers for "x" amount of time, but I'm not sure how to make it run for x amount of time (like 2 minutes for example).
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Is there a way for setting a shorter timeout in an ssh command?
I am writing a Bash script that performs several commands on remote machines via SSH.
The problem is when one of those machines is unreachable, I would like the script to skip and move on instead, it ...
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how to get the timeout exit code while run a command in background?
I'm writing a shell script to run ping command in background, and in the same time, set a timeout value for ping command, I want to get the exit code if the ping is ended by timeout, I use below:
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use timeout and run ping in background and save the statistics to file
I'm writing a script to automatically do the ping test. because I have hundreds of endpoint to ping each other, and I don't want the script stop running because the ping stuck, so I use timeout, and ...
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timeout causes while read loop to end when `cat` is timed out
I am unable to discern why timeout in a function call will cause a loop to stop. I have a "solution", but I am really very intrigued as to how / why this is happening! It seems to be something to do ...
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Time limit for bash script
I have bash script and I would like to set time limit for it. For example if scripts runs longer than 50s, exit with 0. It should be done inside script, I can not change the command how script is ...
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Schedule cancellable script to run after duration
I want to be able to run a script after a certain duration has elapsed. I also want to be able to cancel it and reschedule it, i.e. increase the duration on-the-fly.
I was thinking of somthing like ...
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Systemd - restart service if it is activating too long
I have a systemd service and some ExecStartPost scripts. Sometimes these scripts may take a long time. While these scripts are executing, service is in "activating" state.
Is there any way to set an ...
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read timeout parameter (-t) not working?
I'm not sure how to explain the problem in general, so I'll just use this example:
#!/bin/bash
cleanup() {
rm "$myfifo"
rm "$mylock"
kill '$(jobs -p)'
}
writer() {
for i in $(seq 0 ...
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Timeout when mounting EFS on EC2
Let us say I have an EC2 VM which we will call V in security group S1. I have an EFS mount point which we will call M in security group S2. Everything is in the same VPC, on the same subnet, in the ...
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How to get raw output of showkey for use in a script? [closed]
I want to get the output of showkey for use in a script, without the 10 second limitation.
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How to execute code in a new tmux session - from within current session?
I use Ubuntu 16.04 and I need the following tmux solution because I want to run a timeout process with sleep as in my particular case I wasn't satisfied from at and encountered a bug with nohup (when ...
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SSH: connection reset after idle for some time
When my connection has been idle for some time, the remote host closes the connection. I try to type a new command, it hangs, then closes the connection. How can I keep the ssh connection active for ...
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How to execute nohup in an heredocument?
I have this timeout code block:
#!/bin/bash
WB=$1
sleep 2h;
commands...
kill $WB
To run the script with nohup and in the background, I can paste it in a file, and execute:
nohup /opt/myscript.sh $$...
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Making “at” or “sleep” utilities to print stdout in timeout, on the highest of Bash sessions [closed]
I want to execute a set of commands 2 hours ahead from current time (i.e, in a timeout).
I need to keep using Bash regularly while these commands are timed-out (i.e, the commands need to run in ...
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How to timeout by hours in Bash (and keep timing out even if the session was closed)?
I created the following script to install and then uninstall PHPmyadmin on Ubuntu 16.04...
My aim is to use this script each time I want to use PHPmyadmin, and then, after some time like 2 hours, ...
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timeout command and pipe - order of precedence
I need to test receipt of TCP data. I may not use iperf.
The requirements are saying that I should create a TCP server to which will someone will send random data. I need to count the number of ...
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Send random data over TCP for a while, and count how many bytes were sent
To test data throughput, I want to 1) for X seconds 2) send random data 3) over TCP, and 4) to know afterwards exactly how many bytes were transmitted.
My best attempt (which is not much)
1) timeout ...
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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....
