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

[Nick at 4points.ca]

No errors reported and I could not get the <errorlog>-</errorlog> to do 
anything either.

I should also mention that I am working on Ubuntu.

Nick

On 2015-07-31 10:50, Philipp Schafft wrote:
> 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.
> 
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