Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

I have no clue how to access administrator for icecast2 on a linux server.

I don't use telnet anymore is there a way to access via SSH?

I'm a newbie please be kind.

-Brian

[Anonymous]

Do you mean just viewing the admin section? Or actually editing the icecast.xml configuration files and such on the server?

To access the admin section, go to:
yourhost.com:8000/admin

It'll ask for your login information and you should be all set.

[Anonymous]

There are commands you can run like 'dir', 'dump', 'kick', etc.

That is the admin I'm trying to access, NOT the one at mydomain:8000/admin

The user's guide says to access it via telnet but I haven't used telnet for years, only SSH. So I'm trying to figure out how to access this via SSH.

thx,
-Brian

[Anonymous]

Just to get into your server? SSH should be fine. :/ I'm not understanding what you want, I don't think.

It sounds like maybe you're thinking of an Icecast shell(?) which as far as I know doesn't exist. From ssh you can use "icecast2" to start the server and edit settings, then in the web admin page you can kick users, list mountpoints, etc.

Edit: also, why is there such a long timeout on editing posts? This sucks.

[Anonymous]

Can you give me a link to where it is you're seeing this stuff about telnet? I haven't read all the documentation. Also, what OS are you using? It's pretty easy to get telnet running on most Linux distros. SSH is a specific protocol though, so you can't access a server expecting telnet/something else with SSH.

[Anonymous]

I guess this is some previous version guide or something,

I found the guide here...
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/~angel/web/icecast.html#admin_commands

So forgive a stupid question but how do I restart gracefully if I change something since there is no command for that?

thx,
-Brian

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

I guess i figured if those features were there in a past version that they would be in the latest too, I guess I was wrong, thanks for you help.

-Brian

[Anonymous]

No problem. I'll do what I can, but you might want to wait till someone with a little more experience weighs in too - I've only ever worked with icecast2, and not even very much.

[Anonymous]

I am on Icecast2 and I reloaded the way you said and that seemed to work.

I am now trying to get listed on yp.shoutcast.com

-Brian

[Anonymous]

Cool. I can't help you with getting listed, but if you've got any other questions about icecast2 administration in general I'll do what I can to help you.

[karlH]

icecast won't list on the shoutcast directory as the protocol is different and undocumented. They also don't want non-shoutcast servers listed there, banning servers that are not shoutcast.

karl.