[icecast] icecast permissions

Jack Moffitt jack at xiph.org
Fri Apr 19 16:38:26 UTC 2002



> I'm told not to run Icecast as root but am unable to run as a normal user
> because my log files are owned by root in /var/log/icecast.
>
> even if I change their permissions to 777 it defaults back to 755 and i'm
> out of luck.

It defaults back?  I don't quite understand that.  You can always put
your log files somewhere else.  chgrp them to the icecast user (or chown
even), etc.

jack.

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