> 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?
Sure, I'm sorry for the confusion.
> (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?
In short, mpdscribble is a daemon that submits the tracks you play
(using mpd) to sites such as libre.fm. In that sense it is a client of
mpd. It is possible to start mpdscribble by using
/etc/init.d/mpdscribble start
> (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?
Yes, that's exactly what I want. If I start mpd using the command
/etc/init.d/mpd start
I would like mpdscribble to be automatically started. What I have as
output instead:
$ /etc/init.d/mpd stop && /etc/init.d/mpd start &&
/etc/init.d/mpdscribble status
* Caching service dependencies ...
* Service 'syslog-ng' already provides 'logger'!;
* Not adding service 'metalog'...
[ ok ]
* Service mpd stopping
* Service mpd stopped
* Service mpd starting
* Service mpd started
* status: stopped
> (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.
That's right, it is a typo in my previous mail. The config file has no typo.
> (d) What versions of openrc and baselayout are you using?
openrc is not installed, and the baselayout version is 1.12.13.
Thanks,
Damian.
