services & auto activation

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 11:04 +0100, mehdi bayarassou wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new on DBus.
> I have to develop an application in C in which i can start
> applications through DBus. I want some further information about auto
> activation mechanism, .service files, XML descriptor files ( i have
> read some docs about those terms but it is not clear to me).
> can i define applications as services by creating service files? if it
> is possible, how it is possible?
> thanks 
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If you look in /usr/share/dbus-1/services you can see a number of
service examples.  For instance gnome-vfs-daemon.service looks like
this:

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.gnome.GnomeVFS.Daemon
Exec=/usr/libexec/gnome-vfs-daemon

Those are session services for system services (available in versions >=
1.1.20) the directory would be /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services and
adds the user keyword:

[D-BUS Service]
Name=fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant
Exec=/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
-u -f
User=root

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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>