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* Mounting music dir before MPD :systemd:mpd:config:
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:PUBDATE: <2013-11-24 Sun 14:03>
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Systemd allows you to specify a program to run before running the main
daemon (or program) with =ExecStartPre=. This can, for instance, be used
to run a mount command before starting ~mpd~. By adding under the
=[Service]= heading:
#+BEGIN_SRC conf-unix
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/mount /mnt/music
#+END_SRC
Now I have already setup my ~fstab~ to know what to mount on ~/mnt/music~,
but of course that shouldn't be necessary. According to the
~systemd.service(5)~ man page it uses the same syntax as =ExecStart=,
which tells us that one must use absolute file names since no shell is
used to start them.
This also has the effect of stopping the =ExecStart= part from the
~.service~ from being executed if the =ExecStartPre= doesn't finish
successfully. Which works out great in my case as I don't want to
start ~mpd~ if my music directory didn't mount. If you want to ignore
the exit status of (one of) the =ExecStartPre= commands you can prefix
it with a ~-~, for example:
#+BEGIN_SRC conf-unix
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/mount /mnt/music
#+END_SRC
Which would continue running the =ExecStart= even if mounting failed.
Also know that there can be multiple =ExecStartPre= options and they
will be executed serially, so for example:
#+BEGIN_SRC conf-unix
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/mount /mnt/music
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/mount /mnt/music2
#+END_SRC
This would fail if ~/mnt/music~ doesn't mount, but would continue just
fine if ~/mnt/music~ did and ~/mnt/music2~ didn't.
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