Hi, Liliana Marie Prikler skribis: > I'm not sure if updating the service is a good idea. On the upside, > people who report mpd starting too early will be alleviated of one > issue. On the downside, it appears as though mpd too easily escapes > shepherd's management. My current observations are more or less > consistent with what I saw with Emacs: killing the mpd service won't > stop playing music, Do you mean that ‘herd stop mpd’ doesn’t stop the mpd process? What does /var/log/messages say? > and shepherd won't restart a killed MPD without asked to. Weird. What you describe sounds as if shepherd is not looking at the right process or something. If you have a service definition to reproduce this, I’d be happy to take a look! Thanks, Ludo’.