[Icecast] Strange behavior in Icecast 2.44 startup

[Steve Matzura]

I solved it by enabling the icecast2 service. I got this:


icecast2.service is not a native service, redirecting to 
systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable icecast2On 
9/19/2024 4:32 PM, epirat07 at gmail.com wrote:

> Works just fine now. The background process starts at boot time just as I want.

> On 19 Sep 2024, at 22:08, Steve Matzura wrote:
>
>> I have a script that starts Icecast, waits a couple seconds, then starts ices. When I installed it all on Ubuntu 20.04, it just worked. Well, it still works now, but with a wrinkle. If I execute:
>>
>>
>> /etc/init.d/icecast2 start
>>
> Hi, as far as I understand „/etc/init.d/icecast2 start“ on your system just dispatches to systemctl so
> would be the same as systemctl start icecast2
>
>> I get:
>>
>>
>> Starting icecast2 (via systemctl): icecast2.service==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ====
>> Authentication is required to start 'icecast2.service'.
>> Multiple identities can be used for authentication:
>>   1.  Ubuntu (ubuntu)
>>   2.  ,,, (tgvpadmin)
>>   3.  Jackie McBride,,, (abletec)
>> Choose identity to authenticate as (1-3):
>>
>>
> The prompt means authentication is needed to run the command, hence you are asked to provide it.
>
> This has nothing to do with Icecast itself but with your distribution and service management.
>
>> I absolutely did not set this up, nor have I ever seen this kind of behavior with Icecast before now. How did it get this way, and how can I undo this behavior? Particularly, I'd like tgvpadmin to be able to be the only one (except root, of course) to be able to start it.
>>
>>
>> TIA
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