[mythtv-users] CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE -> multiple instances of mythfrontend

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:41:01 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:

>I find it easier to use pidof
>
>I'm using bash:
>
>if [ ! "$(pidof mythfrontend)" ]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
>then                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
>        echo "Mythfrontend is not started. Starting Mythfrontend..."                                                                                                                                                                                                           
>        sleep 3                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
>        DISPLAY=:0 xset -dpms                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
>        ulimit -c unlimited                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
>        DISPLAY=:0 mythfrontend --syslog local7 -q 2>&1 &                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
>else                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
>        echo "Mythfrontend is already started."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
>fi
>
>Doug

Using "pidof mythfrontend" will only find tasks called "mythfrontend".
There are no such tasks in Ubuntu, where the mythfrontend executable
file is renamed to "mythfrontend.real" and is run from a bash script
named "mythfrontend".  The task name for the bash script is "bash",
not "mythfrontend", so "pidof mythfrontend" will not find it either.
Hence I assume you can not be running Ubuntu.