[Solved]How do I start MPD, stopped

[GentlemanFinn]

Hello

I am starting mpd with an init script, and it works wonderfull, my only problem is that mpd's state often is set to play, so when I turn on my computer it starts to play, this is not something I want, so i'm wondering if there is anyway mpd can be started with its state set to stop og pause?

This is my /etc/init.d/mpd script

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#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/mpd-svn/files/mpd.rc6,v 1.4 2005/10/24 13:42:28 ticho Exp $

USER=MicrosoftBob

pidfile="/home/$USER/.mpd/mpd.pid"

depend() {
	need alsasound localmount
	use netmount nfsmount
} 

checkconfig() {
	if ! [ -f /home/$USER/.mpdconf ]; then
		eerror "Configuration file /home/$USER/.mpdconf does not exist."
		return 1
	fi

	return 0
}

start() {
	start mpd now playingcheckconfig || return 1

	ebegin "Starting Music Player Daemon" 
	start-stop-daemon --chuid $USER:users --start --exec /usr/bin/mpd -- --no-create-db /home/$USER/.mpdconf
	eend $?
}

stop() {
	ebegin "Stopping Music Player Daemon"
	start-stop-daemon --chuid $USER:users --stop --pidfile ${pidfile}
	eend $? 
}

[Sadako]

What was wrong with the default mpd init script?

Anyway, you can try commenting out the state_file entry from your mpd.conf, should do what you want.

[GentlemanFinn]

What was wrong with the default mpd init script?

Anyway, you can try commenting out the state_file entry from your mpd.conf, should do what you want.

There's nothing wrong with the default init script, I only changed it to run as a user insteed of root, because I don't like programs running as root when there is no need for them to do so.

I tryed commenting out the state_file, and it worked, the only problem with this is that mpd starts up with no playlist, so I'll have to add all my tracks to the playlist everytime.

I was thinking about maybe doing something with sed in the init scipt to set state: to stop in ~/.mpd/state, but I don't know how to use sed so if someone could tell me to do that, I would be happy

[roseZ]

My understanding is that the state is saved on exit. So instead of playing with sed, why not put something like 'mpc stop' in the stop part of the script before the command that terminates mpd?

[GentlemanFinn]

My understanding is that the state is saved on exit. So instead of playing with sed, why not put something like 'mpc stop' in the stop part of the script before the command that terminates mpd?

Okay I can do that, but mpc stop needs to be executed before mpd is killled, and I don't know how to make the init script like that, so if someone could show me, I would really appreciate it.

Edit: Nevermind, I wasn't thinking for a sec
This is how my script looks now, I only added the sed command
If anyone wants it, also save it as /etc/init.d/mpd-user so you don't mess up the original script

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#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

USER=microsoftbob #change microsoftbob to the user you want to start mpd with.

pidfile="/home/$USER/.mpd/mpd.pid"

depend() {
        need alsasound localmount
        use netmount nfsmount
}

checkconfig() {
        if ! [ -f /home/$USER/.mpdconf ]; then
                eerror "Configuration file /home/$USER/.mpdconf does not exist."
                return 1
        fi

        return 0
}

start() {
        checkconfig || return 1

        ebegin "Starting Music Player Daemon"
        sed -si -e 's/^state:.*/state: pause/' /home/$USER/.mpd/state
        start-stop-daemon --chuid $USER:users --start --exec /usr/bin/mpd -- --no-create-db /home/$USER/.mpdconf        eend $?
}

stop() {
        ebegin "Stopping Music Player Daemon"
        start-stop-daemon --chuid $USER:users --stop  --pidfile ${pidfile}
        eend $?
}

[kostian]

I only changed it to run as a user insteed of root, because I don't like programs running as root when there is no need for them to do so.

It doesn't run as root, but as a nonprivileged "mpd" user. Read the SECURITY SETTINGS portion of /etc/mpd.conf

[GentlemanFinn]

I only changed it to run as a user insteed of root, because I don't like programs running as root when there is no need for them to do so.

It doesn't run as root, but as a nonprivileged "mpd" user. Read the SECURITY SETTINGS portion of /etc/mpd.conf

I see, thanks for the enlightenment, but my script doesn't harm anything, so I'll proberly not change it until the next time I have to set up mpd

[ticho]

Now this is weird - after a reboot, my mpd always starts playing right where it stopped. I'm using the default init script.