On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 07:02:14PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > Greetings, > > I believe the Debian package of mpd enables a --global .service and > .socket unit for the mpd daemon/service. > > I'd like to mask that and install it just to a single --user service. > > I've tried that: > > sudo systemctl --global mask mpd.service > sudo systemctl --global mask mpd.socket > > and then: > > systemctl --user enable mpd > Failed to enable unit: Unit file /etc/xdg/systemd/user/mpd.service is > masked. > The reason I do not like the --global version is due to logging in on > a virtual console as root and then mpd starting up and causing issues > with the preferred service running under my main user account. > > Any idea how to solve my problem? PipeWire and PulseAudio use the following guard on both the socket and the service: [Unit] ConditionUser=!root This snippet can be put in a override file for mpd's unit either by hand, or by means of "systemctl --global edit". It might make sense to suggest this upstream. > Thanks for any help! > > -m
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