startup script

[Anonymous]

Hello, installing on ubuntu.

Everything’s fine up to script.

cp contrib/mt-daapd /etc/rc.d/init.d /sbin/chkconfig –add mt-daapd

looks like 2 commands on one line. It failed for me – so I copied the script directly first then looked for the chkconfig command. I don’t have one.

So, i just tried to call the script and I get:

/etc/init.d/mt-daapd: line 10: /etc/init.d/functions: No such file or directory
Starting DAAP server: /etc/init.d/mt-daapd: line 17: daemon: command not found

Line 10 from the script is:
. /etc/init.d/functions

which in fact does not exist. I’m assuming the script is trying to create this temporarily but using the wrong command?

I don’t know if there is an analog for daemon on ubuntu, I’ve never used the command myself.

This seems like it should be very simple – can someone please tell me how I can remedy this?

thanks,
John

[Anonymous]

Yeah, because the mt-daapd script is trying to call itself….

Change line 17 to read:

daemon /usr/local/sbin/mt-daapd

🙂

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the try, but the line 17 error message was generated by the fact that I don’t have the daemon command installed. Ubuntu doesn’t install the daemon command by default.

Most startup scripts I see in Ubuntu use start-stop-daemon command.

I’d really rather not install system commands that will be used by only one program (call it my OCD techie aesthetic).

Does anyone have a script they use on Ubuntu?

I try not to hack program or script code unless I absolutely have to.

John

[Anonymous]

Looks like you have no option but to hack the script – I had to. What version of Ubuntu are you running and is it Desktop or Server edition? And did you install mt-daapd from source or repository, and what version is it?

I can probably bang this out at work tomorrow (depending on how my ‘Monday’ is) but need your specifics.

[fizze]

This is weird because I’ve just reinstalled mt-daapd on Ubuntu just fine.
FIWI here’s my startup script:

#! /bin/sh



### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides:          mt-daapd

# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network $time

# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network $time

# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5

# Default-Stop:      0 1 6

# Short-Description: Multithreaded DAAP music server

# Description:       mt-daapd, a.k.a. Firefly Media Server, is what

#                    most people will understand to be an iTunes share

#                    server. It uses the DAAP protocol, as iTunes does,

#                    and supports streaming MP3 and AAC natively. It can

#                    make use of a number of conversion methods to expose

#                    Ogg and FLAC files too.

### END INIT INFO



PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

DAEMON=/usr/sbin/mt-daapd

NAME=mt-daapd

DESC=mt-daapd



test -x $DAEMON || exit 0



# Include mt-daapd defaults if available

if [ -f /etc/default/mt-daapd ] ; then

. /etc/default/mt-daapd

fi



set -e



stopd() {

echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "

start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid 

--signal 2 --exec $DAEMON --oknodo

echo "$NAME."

counter=0

seen=0

while pidof mt-daapd >/dev/null && [ $counter -lt 15 ]; do

if [ $seen -eq 0 ]; then

echo -n "Waiting for mt-daapd to terminate..."

seen=1

fi



counter=$(($counter + 1))

echo -n "."

sleep 1

done

echo "OK, all clear."

}



startd() {

echo -n "Starting $DESC: "

start-stop-daemon --start --quiet -m --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid 

--exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS 2>/dev/null

echo "$NAME."

}



case "$1" in

start)

startd

;;

stop)

stopd

;;

restart|force-reload)

stopd

startd

;;

*)

N=/etc/init.d/$NAME

echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2

exit 1

;;

esac



exit 0

btw I just found out that the mt-daapd package or rather some of the javascript dependancies are broken. Not broken in a package sense, but the /playlist.html for instance doesn’t work.
To make it work again just overwrite everything in mt-daapd/admin-root with the files from a nightly unstable release for instance.

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