
Terminating an infinite loop - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
To kill the outer loop I usually add a sleep command and press CTRL-C some more times: while :; do LONGTIME_COMMAND; sleep 1; done. Please notice: the colon behind while is interpreded as …
How can I force /dev/random to block? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
Mar 6, 2022 · What's replenishing my entropy so well, and how can I find the specific source of randomness? As of kernel 5.6, /dev/random obtains randomness from the kernel's CRNG, which is …
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I have a program which produces useful information on stdout but also reads from stdin. I want to redirect its standard output to a file without providing anything on standard input. So far, so goo...
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Endless pulseaudio error logging: failed to acquire autospawn lock ...
Aug 7, 2011 · I encountered the following in /var/log/syslog on Ubuntu 14.04. Mar 24 09:41:19 ripple pulseaudio[4838]: [autospawn] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/112/pulse): No …
Bash while loop stop after a successful curl request
Apr 9, 2021 · Also, in while [ true ], the test checks if true is a non-empty string. It obviously is, so this does work in giving an endless loop. But [ false ] would also be always true, so a test like that is …
Difference between /dev/null and /dev/zero - Unix & Linux Stack …
Jan 10, 2016 · When trying to redirect to /dev/null and /dev/zero, the output it is discarded. It seems both /dev/null and /dev/zero accept and discard all input. So, what is the difference between /dev/null and ...
Endless loop when connected to OpenVPN - Unix & Linux Stack …
Feb 27, 2024 · I connected my university-vpn via openvpn on Windows, Ubuntu and Manjaro. Windows worked instantly, no configuration was needed. When using any Linux-System, connecting to the vpn …
Endless data loop from dev/ttyUSB while sending AT commands
I have problem sending AT commands to my USB modem. At first I tried php-serial class, but when I was reading data, I got endless loop with strange data. Then I tried to debug problem and opened pu...