How to exit back to terminal?

[noodleboy91]

I have phad set up to run on boot on my pi, and despite the normal shortcut key combos (ctrl z or ctrl c), I cannot seem to exit back to the terminal. Can someone please advise how I can do that? Thank you

[bpennypacker]

If you used the simple installer script then it installed a loop in your .bashrc file that looks something like this:

if [ "\$TERM" == "linux" ] ; then
  cd /home/pi/phad
  while :
  do
    ./phad 2>/dev/null
    sleep 10
  done
fi

That code restarts phad any time it terminates for any reason, after a 10 second sleep. So if you hit ctrl+c etc. to kill phad then this loop will simply relaunch it.

Depending on exactly what behavior you are looking for you'll likely want to edit this file and change/delete that loop.