在Ubuntu 14.04中使用Upstart Server运行脚本

Question

I have a script named rotate.sh . After chmod +x rotate.sh , I can run it with the command /home/lin/Desktop/rotate.sh , and my screen will rotate left.

rotate.sh:

#!/bin/bash
xrandr --output VGA1 --rotate left 

Then I write a upstart job named testOne , located in /etc/init/testOne.conf .

testOne.conf:

description "test upstart job"
author "Lin a@i.com"

start on filesystem or runlevel [2345]
start on desktop-session-start
stop on shutdown

pre-start script
    mkdir -p /home/lin/Desktop/test1
end script

respawn
respawn limit 15 5

script
    exec /home/lin/Desktop/rotate.sh 
    cd /home/lin/Desktop/
    mkdir test2
end script

But when I run sudo start testOne , it doesn't work. Only the pre-start works. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Perhaps changing this line

exec /home/lin/Desktop/rotate.sh

to

exec /home/lin/Desktop/rotate.sh start

would help. As an alternative, you can also use exec stanzas instead of simple cases, in which case, it would be something like this

exec bash -c '/home/lin/Desktop/rotate.sh start'

Check out some reference here on upstart and how to work with it: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#id300