[mythtv-users] Single Instance Howto?

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Sun Jan 8 02:45:08 UTC 2006


John Andersen wrote:

>Is there a way et set mythfrontend to only allow a single instance
>to be launched on any given machine?
>
>Via a comedy of errors I've found on a couple of occasions
>that more than one instance was running.  I wondered
>where the memory went.
>Often after a power failure, KDE will try to re-establish the
>previously running processes, and that, coupled with my
>auto-start script left two instances running.
>
>  
>
Change your script not to launch mythfrontend if it is already running

Kevin


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