Need help running Python app as service in Ubuntu with Upstart

Question

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 term

Answer 1

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

Thank you!