Re: [Jack-Devel] Jack_Capture not starting anymore after having Jackd running as systemd service

Ah, that seems to be the problem! Thanks for the quick reply! 

My initial idea was to add this as well as a service but jack_capture needs user input - is this possible with a service? Like an additional script that triggers the recording? 


> On 10. Dec 2018, at 23:11, Chris Caudle <[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, December 10, 2018 3:53 pm, [hidden] wrote:
>> Now for convenience I added jackd and jack_connect (to route input to
>> output) as a service inside systemd - which works as expected. Before I
>> could easily start jack_capture to record the input. But now it’s not
>> starting anymore unfortunately. I get this error:
>> 
>> jack_capture -c 5 -mb -tm -f flac
>> Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
>> Cannot connect to server request channel
>> jack server is not running or cannot be started
> 
> Probably as Kjetil wrote the user accounts are not the same.
> In the [Service] section of the systemd file you can have User= and Group=
> lines to set the user and group which the service should be run. Perhaps
> if you make a user account and add that account in the systemd service
> file and also log in as that user when you want to use jack_capture it
> will still work as you would like.
> 
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> Chris Caudle
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