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| Author: | kmkittre [ Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Stupid Question |
Okay, this is probably a stupid question. but why does "pkill xinit" restart the frontend? Doesn't that just kill a process? What starts it back up? |
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| Author: | khrusher [ Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:05 pm ] |
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xinit is a child process of teh startx process. killing xinit causes startx to .... well 'Start X' 
Code: mythtv 3830 3826 0 Sep13 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startx
mythtv 3851 3830 0 Sep13 ? 00:00:00 xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc -auth /home/mythtv/.serverauth.3830 |
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| Author: | kmkittre [ Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:02 pm ] |
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Cool, thx. |
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| Author: | nigelpearson [ Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stupid Question |
kmkittre wrote: why does "pkill xinit" restart the frontend?
Processes have children. xinit starts some stuff, which in turn starts mythfontend. When you kill the parent process, its children and grandchildren are killed too. |
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