Upstart service status
#!/usr/bin/env python # # [SNIPPET_NAME: Upstart service status] # [SNIPPET_CATEGORIES: dbus, Upstart] # [SNIPPET_DESCRIPTION: Shows how to obtain the status and pids of a service from Upstart, using D-Bus] # [SNIPPET_AUTHOR: Scott James Remnant <[email protected]>] # [SNIPPET_LICENSE: MIT] # [SNIPPET_DOCS: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/DBusInterface] import dbus bus = dbus.SystemBus() # Get the manager object upstart = bus.get_object("com.ubuntu.Upstart", "/com/ubuntu/Upstart") # Lookup the object for the job we're interested in # this represents the configuration file on the disk path = upstart.GetJobByName("udev", dbus_interface="com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6") job = bus.get_object("com.ubuntu.Upstart", path) # Now lookup the running instance # and get its properties path = job.GetInstance([], dbus_interface="com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6.Job") instance = bus.get_object("com.ubuntu.Upstart", path) props = instance.GetAll("com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6.Instance", dbus_interface=dbus.PROPERTIES_IFACE) # Print out the goal (start or stop), state (running, etc.) and the list of # pids print "%s/%s" % (props["goal"], props["state"]) for process, pid in props["processes"]: print "\t%s %s" % (process, pid)