I tried to reconfigure esd to use only unix sockets instead of using tcp. I have tried to do this via /etc/esd/esd.conf - the standard way. However, all configuration is stored in /etc/conf.d/esound. At least you could include a note for the unaware, it took me several hours to find this out. Or maybe remove the file completely. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install esound 2. forget, that the configuration is in /etc/conf.d/esound 3. get frustrated by not being able to configure esound
If I'm not mistaken, /etc/conf.d/esound is for enabling esd over the network, (starting esd at bootup using /etc/init.d/esound) and /etc/esd/esd.conf contains default options for users starting a private server (in the event ~/.esd.conf doesn't exist). The two configuration files exist for different reasons. Yeah, it's confusing but probably not worth fixing because esound's days are definitely numbered. Gurus, correct me if I'm wrong.
I pretty much agree with mr. John here. The two files do different things, there may be some overlap (i'm not sure), but i don't think it's worth fixing. If you use the init script it has enough info in the config file on esd.conf as well. If you don't use the init script, then you have nothing todo with conf.d/esound naturally.
