Hi there,

I'm working on linux, and I'd like to implement a sort of "panic" button in a patch.
It would kill pd itself, then kill jack daemon and finally kill a pair of processes. After that it would wait for a pair of seconds and restart pd.

I made a small bash script that does it all, it works when launched from the console, but fails when launched using a [geee/shell] object. Looks like pd can't kill himself and the result is that a second instance of pd is launched.

Any suggestion on how to achieve this?
Thanks,

Nau

@nau Show us the bash script here.
Cheers~

Hi,

here it is :

kill -9 $(pidof pd)
kill -9 $(pidof crachepotards)
kill -9 $(pidof crachencoder)
kill -9 $(pidof jackd)
sleep 5
go_jack

where "crachepotards" and "crachencoder" are c programs I made that read the values from potentiometers(i2c), switches and a rotary encoder (gpio) and send them to pd using "pdsend" program, after "change" filtering and at given rates. These were launched from pd itself when the patch starts (using [geee/shell] as well). "go_jack" is a bash script that launches pd with the desired options and a given patch to be automatically loaded (the one that launches "crachepotards" and "crachencoder").

Thank you,

Nau

@nau Just a thought.... as you are addressing the shell from Pd, would it work if the last instruction killed Pd and not the first.........? Probably not.
Better would be to just (only) kill the "go-jack" bash, which (in windows would) should un-gracefully kill all of the executables that it had called..... and then wait and re-start it.....
David.

I think I already tried different orders, but maybe not this one...will check it. Thanks.