On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> wrote: > David Adler wrote: >> This requires that qjackctl isn't running, so the >> full version for scripted pseudo-on-the-fly >> pachbay change is: >> >> >> TEST=`ps ax | grep qjackctl | grep -v grep | wc -l` >> if [ $TEST = 0 ] >> then >> killall qjackctl >> fi >> qjackctl -a /path/to/patchbaydefenition.xml > > I can't speak for this example, but for my actual start-session script > "killall" sometimes isn't okay. I added "-9 -w" and now it seems to be > okay all the time. I kill all apps before I launch them, even if they > aren't running, to avoid that there are unwanted processes running after > a crash.
you're right, the whole test is obsolete. It just avoids a potentially irritating error message. I never had issues with SIGTERM (the killall default, -15). Not too sure, but -w seems to be a good thing when restarting the application immediately afterwards, no problems yet without it, though. best, d _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
