To setup the auto starting of minidlna on a linux machine running systemd create a file /etc/systemd/system/minidlna.service and enter the following:
[Unit] Description=minidlna server After=network.target [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/minidlnad \ -R -S -f /home/pi/.minidlna/minidlna.conf [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
You should now be able to start minidlna running with the following command:
$ systemctl start minidlna
In order to set the system up to auto start minidlna when powering up enter the following command
$ systemctl enable minidlna