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My Kodi setup is a box running Ubuntu + Kodi and I'm also using a Flirc adapter to remote control the HTPC.

I have a button that runs a script that opens kodi (i also have another button that mimics alt+f4 if i need to close kodi).

My question -- not sure why but every now and then (i think is has something to do with plexbmc addon but not sure). I end up having like 5-20 instances of kodi running (top command from terminal will show many "kodi.bin" processes). I alt+f4 out of them all till i am back at the desktop and then open kodi again.

Is there anyway that i can tell ubuntu to only allow one "kodi.bin" process to run at a time Huh

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running Gotham 15.2 on ubuntu 14.10

Thanks!!!!

Can't you put something like this at the start of your script

PHP Code:
ps cax | grep 'kodi.bin' > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
exit 0
fi
#rest of script 

If kodi is already running then the script will just exit.

mafia1245

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