Also, the MPD_OPTS is not passed to mpd but to the start-stop-daemon. You have to use -- to delimit command line options passed to the daemon and not the start-stop-daemon. So, I've made a few small changes and I've attached the modified init.d script for mpd.
Cheers, Adam
#!/bin/sh -e umask 0022 PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin NAME=mpd DESC="Music Player Daemon" DAEMON=/usr/bin/mpd MPDCONF=/etc/mpd.conf START_MPD=true # Exit if the package is not installed [ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0 # Read configuration variable file if it is present [ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME PIDFILE=$(sed -n 's/^[[:space:]]*pid_file[[:space:]]*"\?\([^"]*\)\"\?/\1/p' $MPDCONF) DBFILE=$(sed -n 's/^[[:space:]]*db_file[[:space:]]*"\?\([^"]*\)\"\?/\1/p' $MPDCONF) if [ -n "$MPD_DEBUG" ]; then MPD_OPTS=--verbose $MPD_OPTS fi mpd_start () { if [ "$START_MPD" != "true" ]; then echo "Not starting MPD: disabled by /etc/default/mpd." exit 0 fi echo -n "Starting $DESC: " if ! (grep -q db_file $MPDCONF && grep -q pid_file $MPDCONF); then echo "$MPDCONF must have db_file and pid_file set; not starting." exit 0 fi PIDDIR=$(dirname "$PIDFILE") if [ ! -d "$PIDDIR" ]; then mkdir -m 0755 $PIDDIR chown mpd:audio $PIDDIR fi if [ "$FORCE_CREATE_DB" -o ! -f "$DBFILE" ]; then echo -n "creating $DBFILE... " $DAEMON --create-db "$MPDCONF" > /dev/null 2>&1 fi if start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \ --exec $DAEMON -- $MPD_OPTS "$MPDCONF"; then echo "$NAME." else echo "failed." fi } mpd_stop () { echo -n "Stopping $DESC: " if start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry 5 --pidfile $PIDFILE \ --exec $DAEMON; then echo "$NAME." else echo "not running or no pid_file set." fi } # note to self: don't call the non-standard args for this in # {post,pre}{inst,rm} scripts since users are not forced to upgrade # /etc/init.d/mpd when mpd is updated case "$1" in start) mpd_start ;; stop) mpd_stop ;; restart|reload) mpd_stop mpd_start ;; force-start|start-create-db) FORCE_CREATE_DB=1 mpd_start ;; force-restart|force-reload) FORCE_CREATE_DB=1 mpd_stop mpd_start ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|start-create-db|stop|restart|reload}" exit 1 ;; esac