Icecast Streaming Media Server

[cmodyssey]

Hi,

I am running icecast version 2.3.1 on a CentOS 5.0 Linux server and have a really strange problem where icecast launches an unwanted second itself of itself.

Icecast is normally started by a service script in the /etc/init.d directory of the server and this script nor had icecast been ran seperately when this happened.

I have noticed this happen on a number of occasions now and this time I have an error.log file with content at the time that this happened.

Here is a timeline of events:

2008-06-30 07:37:00 original instance of icecast (PID=10469) is launched

2008-07-03 20:03:06 "The bassment show" connects to live_mount
2008-07-03 20:17:34 "The bassment show" is disconnected due to socket timeout

2008-07-03 20:18:12 "The bassment show" reconnects to live_mount
2008-07-03 20:18:36 "The bassment show" is disconnected due to socket timeout

2008-07-03 20:19:11 "The bassment show" reconnects to live_mount
2008-07-03 22:07:22 "The bassment show" ends normally


The time that the second icecast (PID=17398) is 20:19 but I don't know how many seconds after the 19 minutues there are.

Here is an extract of my process list late night on the 3rd of July:

[karlH]

icecast has no internal reason to start another copy of itself but your log does show scripts being configured to run when a stream starts and stops and those could cause another icecast to start up.

karl.