On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Sivan Greenberg <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Auke Kok <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On 09/03/10 09:42, Epshteyn, Eugene wrote:
> >>
> >> Are there instructions for MeeGo similar to what exists for Debian
> >> (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch9.en.html)
> >> about setting up daemons?  I have some software that needs to run as
> >> a daemon, and I would like to learn what's the right way to do that
> >> on MeeGo (e.g., creating separate user/group, adding to init.d,
> >> what's a good place for the daemon to dump log files, etc.)
> >
> > MeeGo currently assumes no new system-wide daemons will be added, we
> prefer
> > that services are started on-demand where possible, and/or run from the
> > user's session instead of running system-wide. D-bus activation is a
> popular
> > and well-proven method for doing this.
>
> What's the proper canonical way to use dbus in such way to trigger
> local service startup ?
>

See http://freedesktop.org/wiki/IntroductionToDBus under Activation. Though
some think using DBus for such things isn't a great idea, see
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/faq.html#replace-dbus for some background.
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