Ned Deily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I'm starting a Python daemon using SystemStarter, and in it I'm using > > appscript to launch an app (Entourage). I get the following error: > > > > CantLaunchApplicationError: CantLaunchApplicationError -606: Application > > is > > background-only. > > > > If I start the same daemon from the command-line manually, it works > > fine. I'm guessing that some environment variable is not being set by > > SystemStarter, which is what makes it "background-only". Can anyone > > shed some light on this? > > I suspect the issue is that processes started by SystemStarter are not > "connected" to the windowserver and are running as root so attempts to > launch Carbon or Cocoa gui apps will fail. Tech note 2083 has a lot of > details about this and the perils of launching gui apps from daemons: > > <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html>
Actually, the process is running under a regular user user-id, and only attempts to launch Entourage (to read the user's address book) when that user is logged in. The use case is kosher; what I need is a way to tell the system that. Bill _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
