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When Domoticz and Grafana are open in Chromium on Raspberry Pi 3 b, it uses a lot of memory. That's why I want to close all chromium tabs automatically once a day. I can find a lot about the automatic startup of chromium, tab Domoticz and tab Grafana after a reboot but almost nothing about automatic shutdown. In ../etc/crontab I already tried to execute 0 5 * * * killall chromium browser. But that doesn't seem to work. Who knows the answer to this question.

This is what I get when tab "Domoticz" and tab "Grafana" are open in chromium:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ps -A | grep -i chrom
 9665 ?        00:00:26 chromium-browse
 9706 ?        00:00:00 chromium-browse
 9708 ?        00:00:00 chromium-browse
 9740 ?        00:00:01 chromium-browse
 9794 ?        00:00:07 chromium-browse
 9799 ?        00:00:37 chromium-browse
 9867 ?        00:00:04 chromium-browse
10103 ?        00:00:00 chromium-browse

I tried this:

    enter # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file
# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields,
# that none of the other crontabs do.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user  command
17 *    * * *   root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6    * * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --repo$
47 6    * * 7   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --repo$
52 6    1 * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --repo$
0 18    50 * *   pi      sudo killall chromium-browser-v7
#0  5    * * *   root    reboot
#0 17    * * *   root    reboot

I also tried user root

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  • "chromium browser" is probably not the name of the process. Have a look at ps -A | grep -i chrom (notice, chrom not chrome). – goldilocks♦ Aug 14 '19 at 15:24
  • Your comment is unreadable. Please edit your question and add the output to it. – Ingo Aug 14 '19 at 17:38
  • Just tried that and it doesn't do the job. – Copitano Aug 14 '19 at 23:26
  • Add the output to your question and format it as a code block (use the {} button – Dirk Aug 15 '19 at 9:20
  • Ahhhh, Done. See below the question above. – Copitano Aug 17 '19 at 12:56
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It's not that hard to kill a program. You need the PID for it or the correct name.

For Chromium this would be chromium-browser I guess, so run killall chromium-browser.

You should also note that there is auto completion in bash. So if you type in killall chr and then hit the ⇥ TAB it will complete the right name if it's not ambiguous. Otherwise you could hit it twice to see the possibilities.

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  • sudo killall chromium-browser-v7 did the trick. Thanks all. – Copitano Aug 17 '19 at 14:11
  • Unfortunately ~ S it works in the command line but not in the crontab. – Copitano Aug 17 '19 at 16:43
  • @Copitano for me it works. Are you sure you configured your crontab right? You should add that to your question otherwise nobody could help you with it. – jake Aug 17 '19 at 16:58
  • At 20:00 it worked with user pi. – Copitano Aug 17 '19 at 18:01

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