Replaced 'killproc' with 'killall' in 'runvdr'

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 5dc4faf2..3adfbd96 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -230,3 +230,6 @@ Bernd Schweikert <bernd.schweikert@dit-gmbh.de>
 Mirko Günther <mi.guenther@ib-helms.de>
  for suggesting the -m command line option
  for suggesting the SVDRP command VOLU
+
+Achim Lange <Achim_Lange@t-online.de>
+ for replacing 'killproc' with 'killall' in 'runvdr' to make it work on Debian
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 7d7cd391..1855a852 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1107,3 +1107,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   (like the EPG descriptions or the results of commands executed from the
   "Commands" menu).
 - Fixed high CPU usage in transfer mode.
+- Replaced 'killproc' with 'killall' in 'runvdr', since apparently 'killproc'
+  is not available by default on some Linux distributions, whereas 'killall' is.
+  Please check if your system provides 'killall' - if it doesn't, please change
+  this back in 'runvdr' and report this (thanks to Achim Lange).
diff --git a/runvdr b/runvdr
index afd645fc..13ee7329 100755
--- a/runvdr
+++ b/runvdr
@@ -18,14 +18,14 @@
 # See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
 # how to reach the author.
 #
-# $Id: runvdr 1.8 2001/07/27 07:35:19 kls Exp $
+# $Id: runvdr 1.9 2002/03/16 16:22:12 kls Exp $
 
 DVBDIR="../DVB/driver"
 VDRPRG="./vdr"
 VDRCMD="$VDRPRG -w 60 $*"
 
 LSMOD="`/sbin/lsmod | grep -w '^dvb' | wc -l`"
-KILLPROC="/sbin/killproc -TERM"
+KILL="/usr/bin/killall -q -TERM"
 
 # Load driver if it hasn't been loaded already:
 if [ $LSMOD -eq 0 ] ; then
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ while (true) do
       if test $? -eq 0; then exit; fi
       date
       echo "restarting VDR"
-      $KILLPROC $VDRPRG
+      $KILL $VDRPRG
       sleep 10
       (cd $DVBDIR; make rmmod; make insmod)
       date