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autostart trouble

Hi,

I have a little troubles using autostart to let my application starts automatically.
If I read correctly the autostart documentation the only thing I need to do is to write a script in /etc/event.d/ directory, and I've doing it so :

Code:

respawn

console none



start on started xsession

stop on stopping shutdown



exec /usr/bin/myapp

after that I rebooted, but the app still doesn't run automatically. By executing initctl list, I see my script in that list so I try initctl start myscript
there is the output:

Code:

myscript (start) waiting

myscript (start) starting

myscript (start) pre-start

myscript (start) spawned, process 2194

myscript (start) post-start, (main) process 2194

myscript (start) running, process 2194

The output seems quite good but, by running a ps I didn't see such a PID and my app is not running.
Any hint will be appreciated ;)

Re: autostart trouble

Try this:

Code:

respawn

console none



start on started xsession

stop on stopping shutdown



script

  exec /usr/bin/myapp

end script

Note that can be a problem in your app, if it is crashing upstart might kick it and ignore the respawn flag.

Re: autostart trouble

Quote:

Originally Posted by VDVsx (Post 573797)

Try this:

Code:

respawn

console none



start on started xsession

stop on stopping shutdown



script

  exec /usr/bin/myapp

end script

Note that can be a problem in your app, if it is crashing upstart might kick it and ignore the respawn flag.

Yes, there was a problem in my app that segfaults somewhere (especially when called by upstart) :(
Once I fixed it , upstart started working correctly.