[Icecast] Icecast won't start on system boot

[Steve Matzura]

Well, here's the whole output from systemctl.

# systemctl status icecast -l
icecast.service - Icecast Network Audio Streaming Server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/icecast.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2015-03-26 18:06:10
CET; 38min ago
  Process: 839 ExecStart=/usr/bin/icecast -c /etc/icecast.xml
(code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 839 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   CGroup: /system.slice/icecast.service

Mar 26 18:06:09 {my-FQDN} systemd[1]: Starting Icecast Network Audio
Streaming Server...
Mar 26 18:06:09 {my-FQDN} systemd[1]: Started Icecast Network Audio
Streaming Server.
Mar 26 18:06:10 {my-FQDN} icecast[839]: [2015-03-26  18:06:09] WARN
CONFIG/_parse_root Warning, <location> not configured, using default
value "Earth".
Mar 26 18:06:10 {my-FQDN} icecast[839]: [2015-03-26  18:06:09] WARN
CONFIG/_parse_root Warning, <admin> contact not configured, using
default value "icemaster at localhost".
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
Mar 26 18:06:10 {my-FQDN} systemd[1]: icecast.service: main process
exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 26 18:06:10 {my-FQDN} systemd[1]: Unit icecast.service entered
failed state.

I have since defined location and contact, but they were only warnings
anyway. The XML definitely contains a changeowner section with user
defined as nobody and group defined as nogroup.

On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 20:35:25 +0000, you wrote:

>On 03/26/2015 06:05 PM, Steve Matzura 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>
>
>Check which config file it's trying to use, might be a different copy?
>On Fedora the default config file is /etc/icecast.xml IIRC.
>
>TBR
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