Starting daemon through upstart

[JGuilmette]

Hi everyone,

I really don't know if it's a good place to post this question, but I have this problem that I just can't seem to be able to resolve...

I want to configure one of my machine so that it starts an application each time it boots and I want to prevent that it fails, so I want it to be always running whatever happens.

After searching a lot on the web, I discovered that daemons were managed through upstart since Fedora 9. Since I'm on Fedora 10, I used that tool and put a script job in /etc/event.d directory.

Unfortunately, my app, called by a shell script, has a GUI and, when the daemon is started, my app. never starts even though the following command does start my app : exec /home/user/appdir/appexe.sh

So, first, I would like to know if there is a way to start a daemon using a display (connection to an X server)

I tried to run my shell script in /home/user/.kde/Autostart (Afted KDE is loaded, everything is this folder is started), it worked pretty well (I had my app with my GUI), but, in this case, one is not able to prevent "eternal" life to its application. If it dies, it dies until an user restarts it manually, something I don't want to do.

So any inputs from one of you guys? Any enlightenment would be very much appreciated !

Thanks,

Jérôme

[Rubberman]

There is a "dummy" xserver called Xvfb which will let you run x-applications before the desktop boots up or if there is no x-windows desktop.

[JGuilmette]

There is a "dummy" xserver called Xvfb which will let you run x-applications before the desktop boots up or if there is no x-windows desktop.

Yeah, thanks, but it seems that the X composite extension isn't supported in Xvfb (even though I try with Xfvb :1 +extension Composite) and I need it for my app. to work.

I'm not sure about the feasibility of what I want...

Jerome