Icecast Streaming Media Server

karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

as you can plainly see, no icecast is running so naturally it won't be able to respond to a browser request or an ices attempt to stream..

mkido · Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:15 pm Post subject: IceCast got running now.

Great! Wonderful karl, now I got running IceCast like a daemon. The problem was in the command line I used to start IceCast. I remotely login to the FC7 server, then became superuser, and issued command line as below,

~
biwa$su - root
Mot de passe :
[root@biwa ~]# icecast -c /etc/icecast.xml
Changed groupid to 495.
Changed userid to 496.

By this command, the computer didn't returned sharp prompt (#), therfore, so to see what was going on, I always typed <Ctrl>+C, to get the prompt (#) back, and this <Ctrl>+C became the,

[2010-10-22 20:36:45] INFO sighandler/_sig_die Caught signal 2, shutting down...

I tested by 5 minutes of interval before issuing <Ctrl>+C, then looked at error.log. I saw about 5 minutes delay of

[2010-10-22 20:36:45] INFO sighandler/_sig_die Caught signal 2, shutting down...

So, now, I just did,
[root@biwa ~]# icecast -c /etc/icecast.xml
Changed groupid to 495.
Changed userid to 496.

And by another remote login by another [Terminal], and I looked at # netstat -tnlp. Wonderful, icecast keeps running.

karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

yes the -b option, you can also use & at the end of the command line.

karl.

mkido · Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 1:10 am Post subject: Thanks, great karl!

Thanks, great karl!

mkido

Now, IceCast is ruuning like a daemon, great! Here comes one more question,

Now, then if I want to stop it, for example to change the icecast.xml configuration, which command is the most proper to issue?

mkido

karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

kill can be used to send a signal for icecast shutdown, Many changes can actually be reloaded (kill -HUP ...).

karl

DJ-Zath · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:36 am Post subject:

I have a suggestion:

You really shouldn't run Icecast (or Ices) as "root"..

What I do, is create an seperate account/user for Icecast.. and then start Icecast under that user's credentials.. I do this for security reasons- but also, so that I can load "check scripts" in cron to check and test Icecast to make sure its running (and stays running) the other reason I do this is to isolate it from other processes on the server- this way its own "start" and "stop" scripts can easily modify cron (and other elements of the server) which are related to Icecast without effecting anything else.
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karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

just to clarify, starting as root may be required (low port numbers for example) but icecast forces the use of change owner is run as root initially.

karl.