I'm having trouble with the banana script, it seems to never launch on boot?

I've not chmod'd, just put it into /etc/event.d, is there anything else I need to do apart from edit the top? Is there anyway to see debug upstart?

EDIT: Also, how about sending the cell tower info as well?

Try commenting out these lines:
start on started hildon-desktop
stop on starting shutdown
script
end script

Then run it from terminal. What output do you get?

Nokia-N900:/etc/event.d# sh banana
: not founde 2:
: not founde 5:
: not founde 6:
: not founde 9:
: not founde 17:
: not founde 22:
banana: line 26: syntax error: "done" unexpected (expecting "do")

I didn't do anything apart from download it from the 1st post, put it into event.d and edit the top of the file

EDIT: I think it needs bash?

did you copy over the sms files? also, maybe you're missing python runtime?

Nope, I can run the files just fine manually, it's just the upstart script. The one thing I did do was edit banana using vim for windows, so maybe it's screwing up the line endings or something. I'll try with a 'vanilla' banana and not edit it before copying it across.

EDIT: Nope, still not working. I hate to ask this but have you tried using the files from your zipfile? Are you sure that the zip program isn't doing something strange to the line endings?

fyi i wrote it using winscp's built-in text editor

EDIT: I tried downloading the zip file, copying banana using winscp, and editing it using winscp's editor and the python program still runs as it should.

I ended up having to format it like this to get it to work without errors:

export VALID_IMSI=
export SEND_TEXT_INTERVAL=120.0
export HOME_PHONE=
export TIME_WAIT_TO_CALL=60
export ALERT_CODE="XXXXXX"
touch /tmp/imsi
export imsiFile=/tmp/imsi
dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=com.nokia.phone.SIM /com/nokia/phone/SIM Phone.Sim.get_imsi | grep string | cut -f 2 -d '"' > $imsiFile
while read line
do
imsiNum=$line
done < $imsiFile

if [ $imsiNum -ne $VALID_IMSI ]; then
python /usr/sbin/sms.py --sendinfo $HOME_PHONE $SEND_TEXT_INTERVAL $imsiNum $ALERT_CODE
python /usr/sbin/sms.py --listen 0 $SEND_TEXT_INTERVAL $imsiNum $ALERT_CODE &
sleep $TIME_WAIT_TO_CALL
run-standalone.sh dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=com.nokia.csd.Call /com/nokia/csd/call com.nokia.csd.Call.CreateWith string:"$HOME_PHONE" uint32:0
else
python /usr/sbin/sms.py --listen 0 $SEND_TEXT_INTERVAL $imsiNum $ALERT_CODE &

What does 'export' do? Also, is it working with upstart now? If so, could you attach your file to the post so I can test it and update the zip. Thx.

You are asking me what 'export' does? Sheesh.

Ok, I'll sit down and have a go at doing it properly and then get back to you.

hah yeah.. as i mentioned, I'm new to sh scripting. I see that it makes the variables global, but I don't see how that fixes the script on your end.