On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:30:52AM -0500, noble_curious wrote: > Have I asked irrelevent question? :( > You need to look more closely at how services are run by linux. 1) Services started by the init process are run as the root user, which you should no use for running wine apps, so you need to look at having the service start wine+program as a different user. 2) Running '/etc/init.d/MyService start' as a normal user with a graphical interface running, is not the same as running it as a service that gets started at system boot-up. 3) wine normally requires use of X as mentioned by other people, which means that it will fail to run if the desktop is not up yet. Also you shouldn't run a process that requires X as a service. Basically services in linux are completely background and do not require a desktop, services in windows generally rely on the explorer process to be running, which requires a graphical desktop. It is only since windows server 2008 that this has changed. Perhaps what you really want to is start a wine instance with that program on login? Gnome/KDE can be configured to execute scripts on login which might give you what you really want. -- Darragh "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."
