Kill second instance of a process
I'm running two instances of omxiv (Omx Image Viewer). The first instance acts like a background image, and the second instance acts as a slideshow. My question is how can I specifically kill the second instance?
Small note: The second instance will always be opened after the first instance.
I was thinking about killing it by pid, but I am not sure if it will have the same pid after the reboot, therefore this might not work.
Right now I am calling:
pkill -9 omxiv
which is terminating both instances.
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I'm running two instances of omxiv (Omx Image Viewer). The first instance acts like a background image, and the second instance acts as a slideshow. My question is how can I specifically kill the second instance?
Small note: The second instance will always be opened after the first instance.
I was thinking about killing it by pid, but I am not sure if it will have the same pid after the reboot, therefore this might not work.
Right now I am calling:
pkill -9 omxiv
which is terminating both instances.
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I'm running two instances of omxiv (Omx Image Viewer). The first instance acts like a background image, and the second instance acts as a slideshow. My question is how can I specifically kill the second instance?
Small note: The second instance will always be opened after the first instance.
I was thinking about killing it by pid, but I am not sure if it will have the same pid after the reboot, therefore this might not work.
Right now I am calling:
pkill -9 omxiv
which is terminating both instances.
debian ubuntu process raspbian
asked 29 mins ago
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I'm running two instances of omxiv (Omx Image Viewer). The first instance acts like a background image, and the second instance acts as a slideshow. My question is how can I specifically kill the second instance?
Small note: The second instance will always be opened after the first instance.
I was thinking about killing it by pid, but I am not sure if it will have the same pid after the reboot, therefore this might not work.
Right now I am calling:
pkill -9 omxiv
which is terminating both instances.
debian ubuntu process raspbian
debian ubuntu process raspbian
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pkill, at least on OpenBSD (and on one of the Ubuntu machines I have access to), has a -n flag that will make it only affect the most recently started ("newest") matching process.
pkill -n omxiv
If the omxiv process is well behaved, there is no need to use -9.
There is also a -o flag that will make pkill send a signal to the oldest matching process.
Note that using pkill -n will always kill the newest instance. If you have three processes, it will kill the third, not the second (as per title of question).
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That's exactly what I needed, it works great. Thanks for explanation
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pkill, at least on OpenBSD (and on one of the Ubuntu machines I have access to), has a -n flag that will make it only affect the most recently started ("newest") matching process.
pkill -n omxiv
If the omxiv process is well behaved, there is no need to use -9.
There is also a -o flag that will make pkill send a signal to the oldest matching process.
Note that using pkill -n will always kill the newest instance. If you have three processes, it will kill the third, not the second (as per title of question).
answered 25 mins ago
KusalanandaKusalananda
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That's exactly what I needed, it works great. Thanks for explanation
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21 mins ago
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pkill, at least on OpenBSD (and on one of the Ubuntu machines I have access to), has a -n flag that will make it only affect the most recently started ("newest") matching process.
pkill -n omxiv
If the omxiv process is well behaved, there is no need to use -9.
There is also a -o flag that will make pkill send a signal to the oldest matching process.
Note that using pkill -n will always kill the newest instance. If you have three processes, it will kill the third, not the second (as per title of question).
answered 25 mins ago
KusalanandaKusalananda
124k16232383
That's exactly what I needed, it works great. Thanks for explanation
– Dino
21 mins ago
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pkill, at least on OpenBSD (and on one of the Ubuntu machines I have access to), has a -n flag that will make it only affect the most recently started ("newest") matching process.
pkill -n omxiv
If the omxiv process is well behaved, there is no need to use -9.
There is also a -o flag that will make pkill send a signal to the oldest matching process.
Note that using pkill -n will always kill the newest instance. If you have three processes, it will kill the third, not the second (as per title of question).
answered 25 mins ago
KusalanandaKusalananda
124k16232383
pkill, at least on OpenBSD (and on one of the Ubuntu machines I have access to), has a -n flag that will make it only affect the most recently started ("newest") matching process.
pkill -n omxiv
If the omxiv process is well behaved, there is no need to use -9.
There is also a -o flag that will make pkill send a signal to the oldest matching process.
Note that using pkill -n will always kill the newest instance. If you have three processes, it will kill the third, not the second (as per title of question).
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answered 25 mins ago
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That's exactly what I needed, it works great. Thanks for explanation
– Dino
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That's exactly what I needed, it works great. Thanks for explanation
– Dino
21 mins ago
That's exactly what I needed, it works great. Thanks for explanation
– Dino
21 mins ago
That's exactly what I needed, it works great. Thanks for explanation
– Dino
21 mins ago
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