Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

I've set up a cron job every five minutes to start Icecast and Liveice. Obviously, if they are already running, I get an error, but the currently running services keep running. This is exactly what I want...but is there a better way to do this?

[karlH]

Start icecast in a loop within a script with a sleep (to prevent busy looping). icecast terminates for whatever reason and it starts again.

karl.

[Anonymous]

Huh?...sorry, but that's over my head.

[karlH]

Here's a simple version

#!/bin/sh
while [ 1 ]; do
/path/to/icecast -c /path/to/icecast.xml
sleep 2
done

Now it only restarts icecast if the previous icecast has terminated.

karl.