how can I make sure only one instance of gkrellm runs

[Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear fellow Fedoreans,

How can I make sure that only one instance of gkrellm runs.  When I start one of my machines run several instances of gkrellm.  I chose in the configuration run only one, but that does not work :(

[olivares@localhost ~]$ whoami 
olivares                       
[olivares@localhost ~]$ top
top - 17:51:33 up  1:36,  4 users,  load average: 0.36, 0.50, 0.68
Tasks: 130 total,   1 running, 129 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  4.7%us,  1.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 94.4%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    773348k total,   712732k used,    60616k free,    23792k buffers
Swap:  3114416k total,       80k used,  3114336k free,   398188k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 2440 root      20   0  216m  63m 7200 S  3.3  8.4   6:00.98 Xorg
 2986 olivares  20   0 23088 9832 6528 S  1.0  1.3   0:55.45 gkrellm
 3008 olivares  20   0 23056 9868 6556 S  1.0  1.3   0:54.94 gkrellm
 2944 olivares  20   0  103m  23m  15m S  0.7  3.1   0:18.71 plasma
 2968 olivares  20   0 23088 9832 6528 S  0.7  1.3   0:55.39 gkrellm
 2978 olivares  20   0 23088 9828 6528 S  0.7  1.3   0:55.75 gkrellm
 2993 olivares  20   0 23088 9836 6528 S  0.7  1.3   0:55.34 gkrellm
 3000 olivares  20   0 23088 9832 6528 S  0.7  1.3   0:55.55 gkrellm
  554 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:04.96 scsi_eh_1
 2936 olivares  20   0 60492  16m  12m S  0.3  2.2   0:07.61 kwin
20164 olivares  20   0 73576  15m  11m S  0.3  2.0   0:00.27 konsole
    1 root      20   0  2016  848  636 S  0.0  0.1   0:04.38 init
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd

As you can see there are several gkrellm's running :(  

Cameron shared a script with me:

#!/bin/bash
#
pidfile=$HOME/.grkrellm.pid
  if [ -s "$pidfile" ] && pid=$(<"$pidfile") && kill -0 "$pid" 2>/dev/null
  then
    echo GKrellM already running, pid=$pid, not starting a new one.
  else
    gkrellm &           # start gkrellm
    echo $! >"$pidfile" # save the pid
  fi


And it finds that gkrellm is already running so it quits. The script works, but I have to find a way to eliminate the extra gkrellm's.  
How can I prevent the other gkrellm's and run only one?

TIA,

Antonio 



      

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