Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

How can I restart server in a command-line?

[EvilOverlord]

Well if you want icecast to re-read its config file, send it a hangup signal.

[Anonymous]

Here are some questions:
1) Does relaying server need a soundcard?
2) I want icecast to read different config file's in different time? how can i do it?
Thanks.

[karlH]

1. icecast doesn't use a soundcard at all, whether relaying or not.
2. you can copy the xml files before sending HUP and many changes will apply, the main thing that doesn't change currently is the ports that icecast listens on.

karl.

[Guest]

I'm attempting to stop or restart my icecast2 server (which is running). When trying either:

kill pidof icecast2
or
kill -HUP pidof icecast2

this is what I get:

-bash: kill: pidof: arguments must be process or job IDs
-bash: kill: icecast2: arguments must be process or job IDs

I'm a newbie to Linux and am not sure what these messages mean or what to do about them. Any help appreciated, thanks.

Mark

[karlH]

you can use

killall -HUP icecast

or if you are using the kill command then if needs the pids of the processes, which can be obtained via commands like ps or pidof

for instance

kill -HUP `pidof icecast`

pidof will run and return the pid number for kill to work on.

karl.