The most appropriate way to do this would probably be to use apport to check for respawn limit messages in:
- the system log, and - the users $HOME/.xsession-errors file. Even at the default upstart log priority of 'message', when a job reaches the respawn limit, upstart will log a message to one of the logs above like this: init: foo respawning too fast, stopped So apport, or some such utility could watch for these messages using inotify and raise an informational error that would be visible on errors.u.c. ** Also affects: apport (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1381075 Title: [ubuntu-touch] upstart should report applications that hit respawn limit to errors.ubuntu.com To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1381075/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs