Mpd and permissions in Ubuntu

Submitted by k4tz on Sat, 08/30/2008 - 07:49

Question:

I have been using mpd on my pc for a while. Now it stopped working. It is a computer I only use when at my parents' home, so it may have stopped working after upgrading to Hardy, or it may not, I'm not sure.

I have created a symbolic link inside /var/lib/mpd/music, pointing to my music folder, which is on a NTFS drive. Now

Code:
sudo mpd --create-db

has no effect whatsoever. The database is empty. I tried changing the permissions of my music folder, but it seems I can't. Could this be related to NTFS? How can I make mpd work again?

 

Answer:

Ok, fixed. I'll mention how in case someone reads this again. When run as root, mpd drops user privileges and runs as a user specified in the file /etc/mpd.conf or ~/.mpdconf
The default was "mpd"; in order to make it work with NTFS I had to change this to "root".

 

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=902582