Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Blairvoyach]

Hello everyone,

Icecast 2.3.3 KH5 on Ubuntu 10.0.4LTS (VPS)

Despite being a total newbie to web broadcasting, linux, icecast etc, I have somehow managed to get everything working by just googling and googling (how did we manage without it?).

I have just one small problem, which might not even be a problem, maybe you can tell me.

I start the server with:"icecast -b -c /usr/local/etc/icecast.xml"

And I get the following messages:
Changed root successfully to "/usr/local/share/icecast".
Changed userid to 113.
[2012-09-22 13:18:08] WARN fserve/fserve_recheck_mime_types Cannot open mime types file /etc/mime.types

Everything works fine, I can stream AACP to the website and to iPhone which is what my aim was but this WARNing is a bit troubling especially as I can't seem to make it go away.

I assumed it might be because the user didn't have sufficient privilages so I steadily promoted the user right up to root status but the result was always the same.

Anyone shed some light on this?

Regards, Jeff.

oops, I should have also said that until installing KH5, I was running the vanilla Icecast2 installed via apt-get and that ran fine without the WARN.

[karlH]

It looks like you have set up a chroot jail, something that a novice should not really jump into, and as such the support files should exist within the jail. One of those files is /etc/mine.types. You look to be missing that within the jail which is used to map common file extensions and content types. There are a few internel builtin ones but not the complete list which is why the message is a warning.

karl.

[Blairvoyach]

Thanks Karl,

Looked all over the net for an explanation. Everything seems to be working so I'll leave well alone until I find out more about the "chroot jail".

Thanks once again.

Jeff.