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Date:      Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:37:33 -0600
From:      J Sisson <sisson.j@gmail.com>
To:        "Alexandre L." <axelbsd@ymail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Question <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD port : audio/mpdscribble
Message-ID:  <4297a9020911190937m14baa51dge156c6e08e291514@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Alexandre L. <axelbsd@ymail.com> wrote:

> mpdscribble: Failed to create pidfile /var/run/mpdscribble.pid: Permission
> denied
> Here my conf file /usr/local/etc/mpdscribble.conf :
> # The location of the pid file.  mpdscribble saves its process id there.
> pidfile = /var/run/mpdscribble.pid
>

Just a shot in the dark, but can't you change the pidfile to a user-writable
location in the conf file and save yourself the permissions headaches?
Something like $HOME/mpdscribble.pid ?  Have you tried that yet?

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