[icecast] Placing Icecast in a chroot jail

[Alan Silvester]

On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 01:30, msmith at labyrinth.net.au wrote:
> Alan Silvester <mascdman at shaw.ca> said:
> 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > (Sorry for the long email)
> > 
> > As a bit of a learning exercise, I'm trying to place the icecast daemon
> > in a chroot jail.  I've been mostly sucessful: I can get icecast to
> > serve the default stream from its jail, however I can't get multiple
> > streams to work.
> 
> Not sure about icecast 1.3.x (it's no longer being actively developed), but
> icecast2 has built-in (and tested!) support for chroot()ing itself (and then
> dropping root privs).
> 
> Mike
> 
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I'm still wondering why my multiple streams aren't working but I will
take a look at icecast2.  Thanks Mike.

Alan Silvester

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