[pulseaudio-discuss] mpd not listed anywhere

[Jan Steffens]

The easiest way to rectify this would be to run mpd as mzagrabe.

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe at d.umn.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 20:47 +0200, Jan Steffens wrote:
>> Which users are mpd and pulseaudio running as, and which user are you?
>
> $ ps -ef | grep mpd
> mpd 9595      1  0 12:53 ? 00:00:27 /usr/bin/mpd /etc/mpd.conf
> mpd 10639     1  0 13:36 ? 00:00:03 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
> mpd 10644 10639  0 13:36 ?
> 00:00:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
>
> Looks like pulse and mpd are running as user 'mpd'. I am user
> 'mzagrabe'.
>
>> Is pulseaudio running in system mode?
>
> I don't believe so.
>
> $ grep system /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
> /etc/pulse/daemon.conf:; system-instance = no
> /etc/pulse/daemon.conf:; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use
> the system-default, usually 64 MiB
>
> I would assume that pulse should be running as 'mzagrabe' and I ought to
> give some permissions to user mpd?
>
> Or what is the best way to rectify this?
>
> Thanks for the quick help.
>
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