upstart

[Guest]

I finally figured upstart out. but I am having a problem telling it to start jobs right from boot.

I want it to launch a python program and unclutter to get rid of the mouse cursor. I have the jobs setup properly since the initctl start program and initctil start unclutter commands start as expected.

is there some config file or something i need to change?

[Guest]

Re: upstart

solved!!

if you want to use upstart to start a service do the following ( this example is for unclutter [ removes mouse cursor for a linux picture frame ] )

vi unclutter
(put this in the file)
# unclutter

start on startup

start on runlevel-2
start on runlevel-3
start on runlevel-4
start on runlevel-5

stop on shutdown

exec unclutter -display :0.0
respawn
(end of file)
then reboot. my problem was i had startup spelled wrong so it didn't start on boot. hope that helps someone.