[Icecast] icecast2 setup problem - unable to open logfiles

[Dan Stowell]

Paul Melnikow <pnm at zephyr.to> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:02:38PM +0000, Dan Stowell wrote:
> > Zenon Panoussis wrote:
> > > Dan Stowell wrote:
> > >
> > > [icecast can't write to log files]
> > >
> > > > running it as myself ("dan") - the same as the owner of the logfiles
> > > > and of the containing folder.
> > >
> > > >> > -rw-rw-r--  1 dan  admin     0  6 Dec 23:48 icecast2access.log
> > > >> > -rw-rw-r--  1 dan  admin     0  6 Dec 23:48 icecast2error.log
> > > >> > -rw-rw-r--  1 dan  admin  1106  6 Dec 23:03 ices.log
> > >
> > > Who owns the directory containing the logs? Is it "executable" (i.e.
> > > traversible)? By whom?
> >
> > I own it, and everyone can traverse it! i.e.:
> >
> > drwxrwxrwx  5 dan  admin   170  6 Dec 23:48 logs
> 
> and the parent "icecasting" directory has the same permissions?

Yes, that's right.

> can you include the output from the command showing the exact error
> message?

Here it is:

dan% icecast -c /Users/dan/icecasting/icecast2conf.xml
FATAL: could not open error logging
FATAL: could not open access logging
FATAL: Could not start logging
dan% 

This is icecast 2.0.1 by the way, installed via darwinports.

Thanks
Dan