Kill process

[faramon]

Hi,
How t kill process in Raspbian Jessie with PIXEL?
I have a desktop script MyPiAutostart.desktop with content:

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=MyPiAutostart
Exec=sudo python2 /home/pi/myPiConfig/PirMotionDetected.py
StartupNotify=false
Name[hr_HR]=MyPiAutostart

This script starts with reboot or start of raspberry pi.
Script is in /home/pi/.config/autostart and if I reboot computer i found process in Task manager. If I terminate or kill this process from task manager, it disappear for a few moments and came up again and continues to work. Why I cannot kill this process, it raise again and again in task manager?
I create script for killing but unsuccessfully.
Script is:

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import subprocess
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO

GPIO.setwarnings(False) 
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)

PIR_PIN = 7 #GPIO7
GPIO.setup(PIR_PIN, GPIO.IN)
GPIO.cleanup()

proc = subprocess.Popen(["pkill", "-f", "PirMotionDetected.py"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
proc.wait()

Haw can I kill process?

Thanx,
Faramon

[stderr]

Script is in /home/pi/.config/autostart and if I reboot computer i found process in Task manager. If I terminate or kill this process from task manager, it disappear for a few moments and came up again and continues to work. Why I cannot kill this process, it raise again and again in task manager?

You left out the code in the autostart file. It is supposed to restart if you prefix the command with the @ symbol and not do so otherwise. Did you prefix your command with the @ symbol? There have been what I think are bugs in the implementation of autostart stuff in lxde, so anything is possible, did you use the @ prefix?

[faramon]

My code is without @ and looks like

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=MyPiAutostart
Exec=sudo python2 /home/pi/myPiConfig/PirMotionDetected.py
StartupNotify=false
Name[hr_HR]=MyPiAutostart

[stderr]

My code is without @ and looks like

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=MyPiAutostart
Exec=sudo python2 /home/pi/myPiConfig/PirMotionDetected.py
StartupNotify=false
Name[hr_HR]=MyPiAutostart

I'm talking about the ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart which in default looks something like:

@lxpanel --profile LXDE
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE
@xscreensaver -no-splash

Did you add your program to that file?

[faramon]

No. I just put my desktop file in /home/pi/.config/autostart

[Paeryn]

Your autostart runs the python script with sudo so only root can kill the process. As far as I'm aware TaskManager can only kill processes that the current user owns, asking it to kill a process owned by root will just give you an error message.

Your other python script should be able to kill the first process as long as it is also run with sudo, or you could just run

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sudo pkill -f PirMotionDetected.py

from the command line.

[faramon]

thanx,
I think you have right. I will try kill the script with sudo command or remove sudo from desktop script.
Faramon

[faramon]

Hi,

I remove sudo from desktop script and now I can Terminate process from Task manager.
This works great, thanx.
Faramon