Re: [Hamlib-developer] How to stop the `rigctld` daemon?

[Serge S. <se...@st...>]

> Hi folks!
>
> Here is what my sound like a trivial question:
>
> After having launched the `rigctld` daemon in the background,
> how do I stop it?

Thanks for the answers.
The problem is I am launching `rigctld` from a python3 application I am
writing:

   print('INFO: Starting `rigctld` for the %s...' % self.name)
   model = '--model=' + self.model
   rig_file = '--rig-file=' + self.rig_file
   port = '--port=' + self.port
   shell_command = ['/usr/bin/rigctld', model, rig_file, port]

   daemon = subprocess.Popen(shell_command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
   out, error = daemon.communicate()

When the python application finishes, `rigctld` keeps running.
Thanks to your suggestions, I can manually find the process with `$
pidof rigctld` and `$ sudo kill pid` it.
However, when I relaunch my python program, I can no longer restart
`rigctld`,
as if something kept hanging about.
I need to restart my system to get it running again.

Apparently, I am not alone experiencing such problems.
The authors of CQRLOG have also been struggling with this:
    https://github.com/ok2cqr/cqrlog/search?q=rigctld&type=Code&utf8=✓
    https://github.com/ok2cqr/cqrlog/issues/35
Unfortunately, CQRLOG is Free Pascal, which is not very helpful to me.

In view of this, I would really welcome an inherent
    $ rigctl --model=2 --port=4532 kill
command to kill off `rigctld` daemons.

In the mean time, any python specific launch/kill suggestions are more
than welcome.

Finally, from the mailgroup
https://sourceforge.net/p/hamlib/mailman/hamlib-stationserver/
and
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hamlib/files/stationserver/documents/requirements/
I see, you guys are playing with the idea of a hamlib-stationserver.
Having a service start/stop would be great!
If it gets developed in python3 (which is probably the easiest language
for most of us to pick up), I could actually contribute some code.

Looking forward to your reactions!

73 de Serge, ON4AA