liquidsoap-daemon

Run liquidsoap as daemon!

This script configures your system to run your liquidsoap script, automatically and in the background. It currently supports the following init systems:

• Systemd (modern Linux; Debian 8 or later, Ubuntu 15.04 or later, recent versions of Fedora, Arch Linux, etc)
• Initd (older Linux; Debian before 8, Ubuntu before 15.04)
• Launchd (MacOS)

Install

• Setup a system user with sudo access.
• Run daemonize-liquidsoap.sh <script-name> with the same user.

<script name> can be one of:

• name when ~/liquidsoap-daemon/script/name.liq exists
• name.liq when ~/liquidsoap-daemon/script/name.liq exists
• A full path to an existing script file.

It is recommended to place your script files in ~/liquidsoap-daemon/script/.

That's it, the daemon files are installed!

By default, the script installs a Systemd service. If you want to install files for another system, you can do:

init_type=<init system> ./daemonize-liquidsoap.sh <script-name>

Valid modes are currently: systemd (default), initd, launchd.

Optionally you can change the default base_dir location:

base_dir=</your/full/path> ./daemonize-liquidsoap.sh <script-name>

Run

Once you have installed the daemonization scripts, you need to start the daemon as follows:

• Systemd: sudo systemctl start <script-name>-liquidsoap
• Initd: sudo /etc/init.d/<script-name>-liquidsoap-daemon start
• Launchd: launchctl load ${HOME}/Library/LaunchAgents/<script-name>.liquidsoap.daemon.plist

Remove

You can also stop the daemon and remove the files installed by the script by running:

mode=remove [init_type=<init system>] ./daemonize-liquidsoap.sh <script-name>

Dependencies

To run this script, you will need the sudo command. On Debian and Ubuntu, run:

apt install sudo

And configure as needed.

To install the initd scripts on older Debian systems (before 8), you will need the update-rc.d command. On Debian, run:

apt-get install init-system-helpers