Icecast Streaming Media Server

[ZeroEnna]

Hey guys,

after a very unsecure workaround for streamtranscoding (using oddsock's streamTranscoder), which has to be enable manually (via PHP exec), I would like to automate it.
But on-connect somehow doesn't work. The script isn't executed. Here is the corresponding excerpt from the config.xml:

[karlH]

Can you confirm that those mount setting do apply, ie the dump file is created for example. If so then can you show me the part of the error log that show that applying. You should see that pathname logged assuming the mount section is not commented out (also what platform are you using)

karl.

[ZeroEnna]

[karlH]

[2009-12-30 18:00:04] DBUG source/source_run_script Starting command /home/zeroenna/scstart.sh

That means the script was started, the next thing to do is see where you get to in the scripting, see if the shell startup has an issue or whether there is a problem within the script. set -x tells the shell to report commands to stdout/err, maybe that will help to see how far it gets..

karl.

[ZeroEnna]

How do I redirect it to a file? The Script is like this:

[karlH]

a simple test to see if the script is working is to do

#!/bin/sh
echo "this script has started at" `date` > /tmp/logme

maybe /home/zeroenna/streamtranscoderv3-3.1.11/streamTranscoderv3 is unable to start up. eg not available in chroot or maybe try

/home/zeroenna/streamtranscoderv3-3.1.11/streamTranscoderv3 /home/zeroenna/streamTranscoder_1.cfg 1> /tmp/output 2>&1 &

karl.

[ZeroEnna]

The File stays empty.... I mean /tmp/output doesn't sghow anything

[karlH]

maybe streamtranscoder does not produce any output, you didn't say whether the echo line reported anything in /tmp/logme. The fact that an empty file is created would indicate that chroot is not being used, so maybe it is something else like a permission issue if changeowner is being used (the /tmp file created would belong to a different user if so). If you show what is actually happening with the changes suggested then progress can be made.

karl.

[ZeroEnna]

So Stream Transcoder DOES produce an output, when I run it without redirection, my Screen is full with status messages.
The file "logme" contains the echo line, so this part works!

[karlH]

so it sounds like something streamtranscoder specific. From the information provided so far I would still suspect that icecast does not have the access rights to run streamtranscoder, probably because changeowner is being set to a user not allowed to run the program.

karl.

[ZeroEnna]

What would you suggest? Should it be the same user icecast is running under?

[karlH]

ls -l /tmp/logme

see what user/group that file has been created with, ask yourself, can that user run streamtranscoder. eg

[ ! -x /home/zeroenna/streamtranscoderv3-3.1.11/streamTranscoderv3 ] && echo no execute permission >> /tmp/logme && exit 1

All basic shell stuff that it's dependent on icecast.

I suppose it's possible that streamtranscoder is being terminated before really getting started, a sleep after the streamtranscoder line should test that. Without specifics it's hard to make vague guesses about other peoples applications.

karl.

[ZeroEnna]

Everything's running with root permissions, so I don't think there should be a problem. Even Icecast is running with root permission

[karlH]

The icecast code we ship with specifically does not run with root permissions, you may start as root (for binding to low port numbers or chroot for example) but a non-root user is required for normal operation.

karl.