[Icecast] Win32 - log not created

[Dan Packard]

I found the problem.  Windows User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista.

>From Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control) :
=====>". . . if an application attempts to write to a directory such as
"C:\Program Files\appname\settings.ini" to which the user does not have
write permission, the write will be redirected to
"C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program
Files\appname\settings.ini"  <========

I looked in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program
Files\icecast\logs and found the created logs by Icecast.  The other
solution is to disable Windows UAC and then run Icecast with administrator
privileges, which can successfully write the log files to  C:\Program
Files\Icecast\log.

On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 11:21 AM Rondejavu <rondejavu at gmail.com> wrote:

> I’m not an expert, and I’m on a Pi, but this works for me...
>
> <paths>
>    <logdir> /home/pi/icecast2/logs</logdir>
> </paths>
> <loglevel>4</loglevel>
>
> Save a blank error.log text file in the location.
>
> -Pete
>
> > On Dec 29, 2019, at 1:51 PM, Dan Packard <contact at kusaradio.com> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > I'm running Icecast in a Windows 32 bit environment.  The icecast.xml
> path points to C:\Program Files\Icecast\log for <logdir>.
> <logging><loglevel> is set to 3.
> >
> > However, no logs are created at that location. :(
> >
> > Thanks for any leads.
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