Murmur

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Murmur is the server component to Mumble built on the Qt framework. See uMurmur for a lighter weight embedded version.

Installation

USE flags

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Emerge

root #emerge --ask media-sound/murmur

Configuration

Files

/etc/murmur/murmur.ini - Daemon configuration file.
/etc/conf.d/murmur - OpenRC service configuration file.
/usr/lib/systemd/system/murmur.service - systemd service configuration file.

Services

OpenRC

To have the murmur daemon run on system boot, issue:

root #rc-update add murmur default

To start murmur, issue:

root #rc-service murmur start

systemd

To have the murmur daemon run on system boot, issue:

root #systemctl enable murmur.service

To start murmur on systemd, issue:

root #systemctl start murmur.service

Usage

Gaining SuperUser privileges

A SuperUser account is created by default on every instance of a Murmur service. This account is created to assist in administration tasks such as kicking or banning an abusive user or quickly an easily creating new channels. In order to obtain SuperUser privileges, the correct password must be used. The SuperUser password is written to the Murmur log file (/var/log/murmur/murmur.log). Use any pager program or text edit to view the log (for security reasons the log is only view able for users with root privileges), or simply grep for the line:

root #cat /var/log/murmur/murmur.log | grep "Password for 'SuperUser'"

Once the password has been obtained, use a client to connect to the server as the user called "SuperUser". Instructions on adding SuperUser privileges to other accounts can be found here on the Mumble wiki.

Removal

Unmerge

root #emerge --ask --depclean media-sound/murmur

External resources

http://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/MurmurGuide - The Mumble wiki's guide for running Murmur (covers Windows and Linux).