Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I installed icecast on fc6 with yum install icecast. Following the howtos I made slight mods to the /etc/icecast.xml file/ (like hostname and some passwords)

<!-- This is the hostname other people will use to connect to your server.
It affects mainly the urls generated by Icecast for playlists and yp
listings. -->
<hostname>192.168.1.104</hostname>

<!-- You can use these two if you only want a single listener -->
<!--<port>8000</port> -->
<!--<bind-address>127.0.0.1</bind-address>-->

<!-- You may have multiple <listener> elements -->
<listen-socket>
<port>8000</port>
<!-- <bind-address>127.0.0.1</bind-address> -->
</listen-socket>
-->

<!--<master-server>127.0.0.1</master-server>-->
<!--<master-server-port>8001</master-server-port>-->
<!--<master-update-interval>120</master-update-interval>-->
<!--<master-password>hackme</master-password>-->
<!--<master-relay-auth>1</master-relay-auth>-->

I intend for this to be my server eventually so I just wanted to start icecast to see what happens and down she goes:

[tim@fruitbat ~]$ sudo /usr/bin/icecast -c /etc/icecast.xml
Could not create listener socket on port 8000
Server startup failed. Exiting

do I need to be fiddling with port numbers? Do I need to open up any ports? If so, a few suggestions would be appreciated.

Looking through google it doesn't look like there should be much work required to run icecast. Maybe I am missing something.

[karlH]

In practically every case where that message comes up, it is down to the port being in use already. The typical reason is that icecast is already running but it could be any application really. Under linux you can use netstat -tnlp to see what is listening.

karl.