[icecast] Take down and restart.

[Steve Mallett]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 02:33  AM, Brendan Cully wrote:

> On Tuesday, 21 January 2003 at 22:37, Steve Mallett wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 10:15  PM, Michael Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Steve Mallett <steve at osdir.com> said:
>>>
>>>> What is the best way to bring down and restart ices with a new
>>>> playlist, or do I need to stop ices at all?
>>>
>>> Which version? With ices2, you don't need to do anything except
>>> replace the
>>> playlist with a new one - it'll be re-read automatically.
>>
>> should it do this immediately or must the client restart the stream?
>>
>>> With ices 0.x, it's probably similar, but I don't know (since I don't
>>> use it)
>>> - you may not need to do anything, or you may need to send ices a
>>> SIGHUP or
>>
>> It's ices0.2.3
>
> This version should also reload the playlist automatically if it 
> changes on disk,
> as long as you're not using ices' randomize feature (otherwise you 
> have to send
> a HUP to it). Under no circumstances should you need to restart the 
> stream.

Ah, I was using the random option.  Thanks.

Steve Mallett
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