[mythtv-users] Multiple commercial flagging tasks causing Mythbackend to die

[Doug Young]

On 9/17/07, A JM <vbtalent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Since I'm not checking for the mythbackend PID ( BackendRunStatus=`ps -A |
> grep -c "mythbackend"`) is there a way to use the same KILL command with a
> generic "mythbackend" in it? In other words if you find "mythbackend", KILL
> it?
>

killall -9 mythbackend

or

ps -A | grep -c "mythbackend" | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill -9

the quoting on the last is very important, the first is much easier.

-- 
Doug
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