Thanks for all your support on this..<br><br>all the answer were top notch!! <br><br>but, it was the *ORDER* I was starting my scripts, it seems that th python script was connecting to a server process, that was being run *AFTER* the python script...ala..crash!!<br><br>silly me!!!<br><br>On my rearch I bumped into http://upstart.ubuntu.com/<br><br>which seems a nice modern init replacement...<br><br>anyone had a play..they say you can boot faster..but hey..who reboots linux!!<br><br>:-)<br><br>oh miss the meeting tonight, hope you had a good one..I'll be there next time!<br><br><br><br>Laters,<br>Lee<br><br><b><i>Robert McWilliam <rmcw@allmail.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:08:07 +0100 (BST)<br>Lee Hughes <toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: <br>> any idea's. I've not got console access, so I'm not sure if I'm<br>> getting any nasty errors
messages on start.<br><br>To catch the output from the python script you can wrap it in a shell<br>script that redirect stdout and stderr to a file, i.e. move the python<br>script out of /etc/init* and replace it with something like:<br><br> #!/bin/sh<br><br> /path/to/python/script &>/path/to/log/file<br><br>________________________________________________________<br>Robert McWilliam rmcw@allmail.net www.ormiret.com<br><br>People who think they know what they are doing are especially annoying<br>to those of us who do.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk></blockquote><br><p> 
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