Good ol' mpd [solved]

chINeSe mIDgEts · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject: Good ol' mpd [solved]

I'm using a nifty fvwm setup with a music player in the dock, which uses mpd, mpc and ncmpc to play the music. I emerged the three and get this when running mpd

phsdv · Guru Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 372 Location: Europe

permissions for my file:

chINeSe mIDgEts · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:21 pm Post subject:

Ok, so I decided to try and start mpd again, without touching anything, and I get the same error for /var/log/mpd.log. Chmod'ing still hasnt done anything, and I cant touch it because permission is denied.
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feld · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 593 Location: WI, USA

chown it to be owned by the user "mpd"

mpd drops privs to an unpriveleged user
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chINeSe mIDgEts · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:33 am Post subject:

chown'ing did nothing. I'm stil getting the same error

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idella4 · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:03 am Post subject:

my sympathies. permission dilemmas are a right pain.
how about this for some lateral thinking
Forget about rigid adherence to portage. Go to /usr/portage/distfiles
and acquire the source versionsof mpd and or ncmpc and copy it to ~/ under a folder name, something descriptive and original, like maybe programs.
Use emerge to remove one or both pkges.
Then run the standard ./configure make make install
on the packages. If you haven't figured out why, it's because
the program will be installed from within your userspace. Your battle is with system / aplication running permissions. Awfull stuff.
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chINeSe mIDgEts · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:00 pm Post subject:

It works!! (or so I think) Portage spoils us sometimes. Thanks a bunch for the help.

EDIT: Everything works if I run from the terminal, but the FVWM dock script needs to be fixed. CURSES!
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