Questions Regarding Backup and Stopping Gnucash

[prl]

killall gnucash

Or, if you must do it the hard way:

if ps ax | grep -q 'gnu\cash'; then kill `ps ax | awk '/gnu\cash/ {print 
$1}'`; fi

The '\' is a trick to stop the grep from matching itself in the ps output.

The above won't work on OS X, because the running gnucash is called 
Gnucash-bin. Changing the matches to Gnu\cash-bin will probably work as 
desired on OS X.

Similarly,

killall Gnucash-bin

Peter

On 23/09/13 13:36, Buddha Buck wrote:
> The question is, once you have the pid of a running gnucash, what can you
> sensibly do with it?
>
> Right now, I'd say "nothing".  Sending a SIGTERM may cause gnucash to quit,
> but probably leaving a lockfile and not saving any transactions since the
> last autosave.  Sending SIGKILL will do likewise.
>
> What could be a sensible enhancement is to put in some signal handlers:
>   SIGHUP to force an autosave (useful for preparation for late-night
> backups, the usecase that started this thread), SIGTERM to save-and-quit,
> etc.
>
> But arguably, GnuCash is not meant to be used that way, and the signal
> handlers would support an unsupported usecase.  And may not be portable,
> either.
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:15 PM, John Griessen <john at cibolo.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/22/2013 09:23 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>>
>>> Any
>>> suggestions on how to gracefully kill gnucash from the command line?
>>>
>> I'm guessing you mean as a result of giving a shutdown command. Good idea.
>>   I know some
>> of the debian distro has actions like that, but for services that are in
>> /etc/init.d.  You could
>> do a pipe:
>> ps ax | grep gnucash
>> as a command run from inside a perl or python script,
>> then so some text processing on the result...
>>
>> john at toolbench:~$ ps ax | grep gnucash
>>   5720 pts/1    Sl     0:20 gnucash xxxxxx.gnucash
>>   5737 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep gnucash
>>
>> I just use the open anyway dialog box answer to deal with the lock files.
>> Have not had trouble.
>>
>> Am I risking some trouble doing that?
>>
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