I have written a logging application in Python that is meant to start at boot, but I've been unable to start the app with Ubuntu's Upstart init daemon. When run from the terminal with sudo /usr/local/greeenlog/main.pyw, the application works perfectly. Here is what I've tried for the Upstart job:
/etc/init/greeenlog.conf
# greeenlog
description "I log stuff."
start on startup
stop on shutdown
script
exec /usr/local/greeenlog/main.pyw
end script
My application starts one child thread, in case that is important. I've tried the job with the expect fork stanza without any change in the results. I've also tried this with sudo and without the script statements (just a lone exec statement). In all cases, after boot, running status greeenlog returns greeenlog stop/waiting and running start greeenlog returns:
start: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.61" (uid=1000 pid=2496 comm="start) interface="com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6.Job" member="Start" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="com.ubuntu.Upstart" (uid=0 pid=1 comm="/sbin/init"))
Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? I appreciate any help you can give. Thanks.
Thanks to unutbu's help, I have been able to correct my job. Apparently, these are the only environment variables that Upstart sets (retrieved in Python with os.environ):
{'TERM': 'linux', 'PWD': '/', 'UPSTART_INSTANCE': '', 'UPSTART_JOB': 'greeenlog', 'PATH': '/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin'}
My program relies on a couple of these variables being set, so here is the revised job with the right environment variables:
# greeenlog
description "I log stuff."
start on startup
stop on shutdown
env DISPLAY=:0.0
env GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/greeenguru/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
script
exec /usr/local/greeenlog/main.pyw > /tmp/greeenlog.out 2>&1
end script
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