Running

Overview

On startup myMPD does the following:

• Check and create cachedir and workdir directories.
  • cachedir and workdir must exist, if not started as root.
• Reads environment at first startup.
• Binds to the configured http and ssl port.
• Dropping privileges, if started as root.

• Check and create the directories inside cachedir and workdir.

• Note: It is not supported to run myMPD as root. If started as root, myMPD drops privileges to the configured user (default mympd).

Startup script

The installation process installs a LSB compatible startup script / systemd unit for myMPD.

Systemd usage

You must enable and start the service manually. Use systemctl enable mympd to enable myMPD at startup and systemctl start mympd to start myMPD now.

myMPD logs to STDERR, you can see the live logs with journalctl -fu mympd.

The default myMPD service unit uses the DynamicUser= directive, therefore no static mympd user is created. If you want to change the group membership of this dynamic user, you must add an override.

Example: add the mympd user to the music group

mkdir /etc/systemd/system/mympd.service.d
echo -e '[Service]\nSupplementaryGroups=music' > /etc/systemd/system/mympd.service.d/music-group.conf

• Note: The default systemd service unit supports only systemd v235 and above.

Openrc usage

You must enable and start the service manually. Use rc-update add mympd to enable myMPD at startup and rc-service mympd start to start myMPD now.

myMPD logs to syslog to facility daemon, you can see the live logs with tail -f /var/log/messages.

Manual startup

To start myMPD in the actual console session: mympd (myMPD keeps in foreground and logs to the console, press CTRL+C to stop myMPD)

If you use a distribution with systemd (without a static mympd user):

systemd-run -t -p DynamicUser=yes -p StateDirectory=mympd -p CacheDirectory=mympd /usr/bin/mympd

Description of Commandline-Options.

Docker

Goto Docker

myMPD configuration

You can configure some basic options of myMPD via startup options or environment variables.

• Configuration