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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Arch Linux - pacman connections time out, unable to upgrade system
I am currently troubleshooting a bizarre problem on my Arch Linux system. Since about a week ago, pacman upgrades started failing. Fetching the latest package lists hangs for roughly 10 seconds after ...
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yum timeout operation too slow setting
in doing a reposync of EPEL, a particular download of an rpm is doing...
some.rpm: Curl error (28): Timeout was reached for http:///repo.wherever.edu [operation too slow less than 1000 bytes/sec ...
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How to automatically terminate shell scripts after 1 minute of no output
I need to run multiple shell scripts sequentially (s1.sh, s2.sh, s3.sh) with the following requirement:
If a script produces no output (stdout or stderr) for 1 minute, it should be terminated
After ...
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How to change the timeout for an inquiry command
I'm getting timeouts on inquiry while a write buffer is active because the device cannot respond to the inquiry until the write buffer is complete.
See errors .
Dec 10 16:04:39 soul kernel: sd 0:0:34:...
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host command -W timeout not working
The linux host command says capital -W specifies wait seconds, but in my case it always seems to wait longer regardless of specified seconds:
time host -W 2 2409:8a50:4be:3eb0:5cce:db14:2e63:daf6
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After using the timeout command in the container of the alpine image, a dead process will be left
I ran a container using the alpine image and used timeout to run a command in it. After the timeout command ran, there is a dead process left in alpine, and I cannot kill it using the kill command. My ...
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Failed to boot Debian server + slow in emergency mode
I am running Debian GNU/Linux 12.5.0 (bookworm) on a computer which has suddenly failed to boot and is extremely slow in emergency mode. Apologies in advance if I leave something important out, I am a ...
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Keep restarting an application in an interactive session after a short time
So I'm aware that this is a somewhat convoluted usecase with probably not many practical applications, so unfortunately I wasn't able to find many helpful pointers so far.
Basically, I would like to ...
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dhcpcd times out at "waiting for carrier"
When I try to connect to wifi, dhcpcd gets stuck,
# dhcpcd wlxf42853190543
dhcpcd-10.0.6 starting
DUID 00:01:00:01:2d:1b:d8:8a:f4:e8:53:d9:78:b1
wlxf42853190543: waiting for carrier
and times out. I ...
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How can I specify a maximum service duration in systemd service?
I have a problem where on rare occasions my Type=simple systemd service hangs or gets caught in a loop. This causes its timer to stop scheduling the service because, as confirmed with sudo systemctl ...
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Exit status of pipe with timeout command behaves differently in interactive shell vs shell script
Interactive sh shell session:
$ sh
$ timeout 1 yes | sed -n s/a/b/p ; echo $?
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Non-interactive script via sh -c:
$ sh -c 'timeout 1 yes | sed -n s/a/b/p ; echo $?'
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Why do those ...
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unprivileged SSH sessions timeout but a session that has been su'd (to root) stays alive
From Windows-10, I use MobaXterm to SSH log in to a Fedora-38 machine remotely with unprivileged account 'mike' and typically establish a second session that I su to privileged 'root' account so I don'...
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Time, Memory Limit and Timeout for Python Command Only
I want to enforce timeout of 5s to python command and at the same time want to measure the execution time for python command (taking into account that python3 command memory limit is 256 MB), what I ...
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How to monitor script execution time and generate notifications at milestone intervals without terminating the script?
Is there a way I can monitor the execution time of a script and generate notifications if the script is still running at milestone intervals?
AFAICS, wait in bash always blocks.
I intend using this in ...
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Why does this script get to linger after having seemingly exited from Ctrl-C? [duplicate]
I have a script, script-A, which runs script-B. When run under the terminal, it terminates as expected from Ctrl-C, but when run via ssh it continues to silently run after Ctrl-C even though ssh ...
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