[Icecast] Icecast won't start on system boot

Jonathan Candler jonathancandler_msa at q.com
Thu Mar 26 20:25:32 UTC 2015


Are you logged in as another user account other than root? If not, that's the simplest way I would do it.

Jonnyboy! Iphones rock!

> On Mar 26, 2015, at 11:05, Steve Matzura <sm at noisynotes.com> wrote:
> 
> OK, took a crash course in systemctl. Got the service properly
> enabled. However, got one odd error when I started it.
> 
> Mar 26 18:06:10 {my-FQDN} icecast[839]: ERROR: You should not run
> icecast2 as root
> Mar 26 18:06:10 {my-FQDN} icecast[839]: Use the changeowner directive
> in the config file
> 
> The XML shows:
> 
> <changeowner>
>    <user>nobody</user>
>    <group>nogroup</group>
> </changeowner>
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