On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 04:27:59PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:15:29PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 05:11:47PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 05:57:50PM +0200, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > > > > I'm against adding any cargo cult stuff like this and would rather see > > > > someone who knows aucat and the audio stuff figure out why it skips and > > > > clicks like mad. I doubt it's mpds fault. > > > > > > > > But that's probably not going to happen... Oh well. Commit it if you > > > > really have to. > > > > > > this is the first I heard of mpd skipping with auich. skipping > > > was reported with azalia, but since I haven't heard anything about > > > that since the interrupt issue was dealt with, I figured that's > > > what was causing it. > > > > > > anyway, I have no idea how to use mpd, and don't really care enough > > > to figure it out on my own. there are many mpd users here, afaik. > > > > so, I pkg_add'd mpd and mpc ... > > > > $ mpd > > log: problem opening log file "/var/log/mpd/mpd.log" (config line 37) for > > writing > > Abort trap (core dumped) > > $ > > oh come on. > > pkg_info -M mpd will show you that by default it's supposed to be > launched by root, and /etc/mpd.conf has shitload of comments.
no, it tells you how to launch it from rc.local. it does not say mpd will crash and burn if you start it as a regular user without changing the config file. > And yes, mpd's error handling is totally awful. MAINTAINER is aware of > it. > > Landry and so why should I care, really? if it doesn't work as a regular user try running it as root? talk about "oh come on" ... -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
