[icecast] Different User

[harvey smith]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Steve Smith wrote:

> "harvey" == harvey smith <harvey at buskers.org> writes:
> > Hi All, Hey there is no reason to run icecast as root.  So the easy
> > thing is just not run icecast as root. In fact why are you running
> > as root to begin with??
> 
> If icecast is run from startup scripts on boot then it will almost
> certainly be running as root.

Then the start up scripts are in error, you could do a 'su' in the
script. Wgere did you get the start-up scripts from?

Harvey

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> Steve
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