<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'>> You need to use a "User=foo" line into the service file so that dbus > knows what user to launch the process as.   Thanks for that advice Richard, I appreciate it. I've made that change by setting the user as root, I don't know if root is the right one to be using for when I go to production but it'll be fine for the sake of getting me up and running. It seems to have taken us to the next step, however, I'm now getting a different error when running my application and trying to create the service.   DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.FailedToSetup: Failed to setup environment correctly Do you happen to know what this is? it seems somewhat more serious than the last one :-D   Thanks for your time Richard,   Robert <hr />She said what? About who? <a href='http://www.msnsearchstar.com' target='_new'>Shameful celebrity quotes on Search Star!</a></body> </html>