Damian: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:56:14PM +0100, Damian wrote: > I understand, but that isn't what I want, because when I boot up, I > don't always start up mpd. > > > Maybe a combination of both > > > > rc_after="mpdscrible" > > rc_need="mpdscrible" > > > > in /etc/conf.d/mpd could also work. > That's the problem. No matter what I put in /etc/conf.d/mpd the init > script seems to ignore it. Even if I write > rc_need="more money" > it will be ignored. Although the config file is read when I restart mpd.
I am getting rather confused by this back and forth (I thought I understood what you wanted and Dirk and other's answers should be right, but now I am not so sure). Can you answer the following for me just to make sure we are on the same page? (a) What is mpdscribble? My understanding is that it is a service that tells other things what is currently playing on mpd? That it is actually a client of mpd? Is it actually a daemon/service? (b) What actually is the desired behaviour? From the last e-mail I am under the impression you don't always want to have the mpd daemon running, but you want to be able to bring up /etc/init.d/mpd and automatically have mpdscribble started? Can you give me a description of what commands you want to execute and what you want to accomplish with those? (c) I noticed that in your previous e-mail you spelled it mpdscrible with only one b. Is that a typo in the e-mail, or is it actually how you have it in /etc/conf.d/mpd? emerge --search suggests that mpdscribble is spelled with two b's. (d) What versions of openrc and baselayout are you using? Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton