[icecast] capturing pid from command line

[Dave St John]

still no workie :(

You guys think you could add this internaly in the icecast server?
(icecast.xml)
<server_pid>/path/to/my/file.pid</server_pid>

instead of using a shell script to facilitate this.

<p>Dave St John
(CEO) Mediacast1.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brendan Cully" <brendan at xiph.org>
To: <icecast at xiph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [icecast] capturing pid from command line

<p>> On Tuesday, 04 November 2003 at 18:12, Dave St John wrote:
> > tried that already but it doesnt catch the parent, it captures one of
the
> > children.
> >
> > Would the fact that the server runs as a user and not as root having
> > anything to do with $! not working, since it works with shoutcast
> > running as root?
>
> ...
> > > icecast -c /path/icecast.xml &
> > > echo $!
> ...
>
> off the top of my head, to get the parent of $! you might try
> something like:
>
> child=$!
> parent=`ps -ef | egrep "^[a-z]+ *$child" | awk '{print $3}'
>
> -b
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