[mythtv-users] OT - FC3 problems following Jarod's Guide

[Tim Fenn]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 07:20:23PM -0600, Meatwad wrote:
> Shaun Sandlin wrote:
> >I'm a bit of a newb...can you tell how to kill MTD please.
> 
> Certainly. I'm fairly new myself.
> 
> # ps -A | grep mtd
> 
> If mtd *is* running, it will have it's process number will be to the 
> left like this...
> 

Just use pidof.

A handy trick thats useful for scripts and the like (instead of having
to do all the ps -A | grep | grep -v ps mumbo-jumbo):

if [ $(pidof mtd) ]; then
   kill $(pidof mtd)
fi

or even

for i in $(pidof mythfrontend) ]; do
    kill $(i)
done

HTH,
Tim

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