PCBSD 9.0: Multiple instances of amountd

[bitraptor]

On every login a new instance of /usr/local/etc/amount/amountd is launched. Shell script does not terminate when logging out thus after logout/login we end up with multiple instances of the script.

[bitraptor]

The way amountd is started is not that obvious. gdm invokes /usr/local/etc/gdm/Xsession which invokes ~/.xprofile which invokes scripts in /usr/local/share/pcbsd/xstartup.

To fix the issue for me I changed /usr/local/share/pcbsd/xstartup/amountd.sh to

#!/bin/sh

ps -x | grep -v grep | grep /usr/local/etc/amount/amountd >/dev/null
# if not found - equals to 1, start it
if [ $? -eq 1 ]
then
        (/usr/local/etc/amount/amountd) &
fi

[drulavigne]

Note that for 9.1, amountd has been replaced by Mount Tray: http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Mount_Tray.