You can always kill a process using its PID, there's no need to close your terminal; If you want to run something in an infinite loop like a daemon then you'd best put it in the background

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Apr 9, 2021 · 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 perhaps a bit misleading. Could use while true; do instead.

You can't really monitor the output of dmesg directly.. However, chances are high that your module is not printing directly into the ring-buffer of dmesg, but instead uses the kernel logging facilities (which will then be displayed by dmesg).

I check service status with systemctl status service-name. By default, I see few rows only, so I add -n50 to see more. Sometimes, I want to see full log, from start. It could have 1000s of rows. ...

Screen has its own scroll buffer, as it is a terminal multiplexer and has to deal with several buffers.. Maybe there's a better way, but I'm used to scrolling using the "copy mode" (which you can use to copy text using screen itself, although that requires the paste command too):

I can't seem to find an answer to this simple question, which I need for some compliance documentation. On a default install of CentOS 6.5 (OpenSSH 5.3p1-94.el6), after how long of being idle wi...

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The device only echos the command back once, but using the above commands I get a crazy endless repetition on the terminal output. – user391339 Commented Mar 1, 2018 at 8:25

From the tail(1) man page:. With --follow (-f), tail defaults to following the file descriptor, which means that even if a tail’ed file is renamed, tail will continue to track its end.