| iamthelostboy | hi :) I think I asked this once before, but what is the best way to start an X app from an upstart job? exec xinit program doesnt seem to be working, though I can xinit program from console.. | 00:56 |
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| iamthelostboy | never mind.. i figured out my daftness.. | 01:23 |
| iamthelostboy | actually, i want to start a process and when it is running, emit an event to kick off another job.. | 01:33 |
| iamthelostboy | the process will stay running, so i cant just put the emit after the command, and I cant put a &, because the job is set to respawn.. | 01:34 |
| iamthelostboy | any ideas? | 01:34 |
| sadmac | iamthelostboy: there's already such an event | 01:46 |
| sadmac | iamthelostboy: started foojob | 01:46 |
| iamthelostboy | hey... now thats easy :) | 01:48 |
| iamthelostboy | im sure I tried that once before.. obviously not though.. | 01:48 |
| iamthelostboy | will the started event be fired as soon as that job is begun? The second job really requires the application started by the first to be running.. | 01:49 |
| iamthelostboy | in our current setup of boot scripts, there is a wait, which I'm sure we could put in.. | 01:50 |
| sadmac | iamthelostboy: its as soon as upstart determines the job to be running. in 0.5 there's a few ways to postpone that. Also I think it waits for post-start to finish | 01:50 |
| iamthelostboy | i suppose the ideal way would be to have the first application emit the event when it is at a ready state... | 01:52 |
| sadmac | put in a wait foo in the post-start script or if you have 0.5 use the appropriate expect value | 01:53 |
| iamthelostboy | its using ubuntu 8.04, which is quite a lot earlier than 0.5 i think | 01:53 |
| sadmac | yeah. that won't do it | 01:53 |
| iamthelostboy | post-start scripts only get run when the process ends? so if i run the command through exec, it will not get run until that process ends, but if it isnt run through exec, it would get run pretty quickly? | 01:55 |
| sadmac | it runs after the process is spawned | 01:56 |
| sadmac | unless your job is a task not a service | 01:56 |
| iamthelostboy | no.. its an application, i think.. | 01:57 |
| sadmac | iamthelostboy: do you have a service or respawn stanza? | 01:57 |
| iamthelostboy | respawn | 01:58 |
| sadmac | ok so that should be a service... | 01:58 |
| iamthelostboy | oh.. | 01:58 |
| sadmac | whihc means post-start should get run after the process is spawned | 01:58 |
| iamthelostboy | ill go try it | 01:59 |
| iamthelostboy | awesome.. | 02:01 |
| keesj | iamthelostboy: X session live on an other planet, I you want to start something for the current user in the X11 session I think you need to use "X sessions" to do that. | 10:33 |
| keesj | but that said I think I would be nice if for example the program that listend to dbus (the gnome volume manager for example) could react on the upstart-events | 10:35 |
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