Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

I am used to Shoutcast, and am adding Icecast to my online radio offerings.

In Shoutcast, I telnet in and give as command ./sc_serv &, to start the server.

Is there a similar command for Icecast? I was able to untar and run the makefile to compile everything, but am now stuck. My webhost tells me everythign is properly installed, but that they do not offer anu additional assistance.

The official Icecast how to http://www.gnuware.com/icecast/ here in the forum does not state that there is a specific command, it just tells you to "start the server".

Any assistance is highly appreciated, many thanks!

Linux box, and will be using SAM to relay the stream.

[karlH]

The general form of the command to start icecast is

/path/to/icecast -c /path/to/icecast.xml

obviously the actual locations of those can be determined by yourself. The above will leave the process in foreground so either use the -b parameter or get the shell to place it in the background with &

karl.

[Anonymous]

icecast.xml.in?

I don't see a file with just the xml file extension.

Thanks!

[kozlov]

Probably in /etc/icecast2/. Probably, because I don't know a lot about every distribution of Linux. Seek it.
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polska dokumentacja serwera Icecast2 / polish documentation of Icecast2

[Anonymous]

I have this same problem, unable to start icecast server. Cannot locate icecast.xml. Although, as said above I can find icecast.xml.in. I think our server is setup fine. But we're struggling to find out how to start the server?

We have the latest icecast installed

Any help would be appreciated.

[karlH]

if you are using the source distribution then the .in files are templates, you should fine with the .dist files, which are created from those templates. Obviously you can tweak them as much as you want.

karl.

[Anonymous]

Whats the command to start the icecast server on a linux platform