[Icecast] icecast2 will not start from the /etc/init.d

[Philipp Schafft]

reflum,

On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 10:38 -0400, Nick at 4points.ca wrote:
> I can start it fine from the command line using  icecast -c icecast.xml

Does it report any problems when you try this?


> we have ver 2.4.
> 
> When I try and start it using /etc/init.d/icecast2 start  it says [ ok ] 
> Starting icecast2 (via systemctl): icecast2.service.
> 
> but it actually doesn't start.  nothing in the error logs, nothing in 
> syslog.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.

Maybe it can not write to the error log (e.g. because of a permission
problem).

Please check the permissions of the log files.

You can also try to set:
<errorlog>-</errorlog>

This should let Icecast log to stderr.

-- 
Philipp.
 (Rah of PH2)
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