[icecast] Placing Icecast in a chroot jail

[Alan Silvester]

Bryan Jay Miller wrote:

>On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 06:09, Alan Silvester wrote:
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>>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.
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>Alan, I was looking into this a few months ago and found a good article
>on chroot() jailing and it detailed how to chroot() icecast 1.3.x.
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>http://rr.sans.org/linux/daemons.php
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>But Icecast2's facilities for chroot()ing and changing user IDs after
>startup are definitely superior.
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>-bryan miller
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Thanks for the link, Bryan.  I'm not too sure what I did (other than 
rebooting) but the multiple streams now seem to work... weird.  Oh well, 
thanks again everyone :)

Alan Silvester

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