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kmkittre
 Post subject: Stupid Question
PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:17 pm 
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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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xinit is a child process of teh startx process.

killing xinit causes startx to .... well 'Start X' :)

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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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Cool, thx.

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nigelpearson
 Post subject: Re: Stupid Question
PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 1:53 am 
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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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