On 02/19/2015 11:00 PM, joach...@fastmail.fm wrote:
systemd.services.mpd.serviceConfig = { PermissionsStartOnly =
true; };
That is neat! Thank your for it :-)
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2015, at 09:28 PM, James Cook wrote:
Hm, this sounds like a bug actually. Maybe the mkdir is running as mpd
but the author of that .nix file expected it to run as root? (Can
anyone contradict this?)
This is correct [1]. Until the fix hits unstable, you can set
If you have a moment, please record the error you're seeing when you
just use mpd.enable = true, and then file a bug on github.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/6470
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Hm, this sounds like a bug actually. Maybe the mkdir is running as mpd
but the author of that .nix file expected it to run as root? (Can
anyone contradict this?)
If you have a moment, please record the error you're seeing when you
just use mpd.enable = true, and then file a bug on github.
As a
Looking at the source (nixos/modules/services/audio/mpd.nix), it looks
like the mpd service is designed to run as the mpd user. If you are
willing to go with that design, I guess you should not set
services.mpd.dataDir, and make sure the mpd user has read access to
your music directory. (It
On 18 February 2015 at 22:22, Nikita Karetnikov nik...@karetnikov.org wrote:
I've tried various options, but mpd always fails with a permission error.
Here's one example:
services.mpd.enable = true;
services.mpd.dataDir = /home/nikita/dotfiles/mpd/.mpd;
services.mpd.musicDirectory =
As is clear from the log, it is not mpd who creates the directory, it’s the
preStart = mkdir -p ${cfg.dataDir} chown -R mpd:mpd ${cfg.dataDir};
line it its unit file. The permission error likely happens because it
doesn’t have the search (x) permission. Remember that it is running as
I've tried various options, but mpd always fails with a permission error.
Here's one example:
services.mpd.enable = true;
services.mpd.dataDir = /home/nikita/dotfiles/mpd/.mpd;
services.mpd.musicDirectory = /home/nikita/music;
Both directories exist.
$ journalctl -u mpd.service
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