<pre><font size="4">Hi,<br><br>WE MADE THE CHANGE OF PERMISSION FOR /VAR/LOG/ICECAST THEN LOGGED IN AS ROOT AND ATTEMPTED TO <br>START THE SERVER BUT HERE IS THE ERROR THAT RESULTED:<br><br>[sphynx@sphynxradio ~]$ chown sphynx.sphynx /var/log/icecast<br>
[sphynx@sphynxradio ~]$ su<br>Password: <br>[root@sphynxradio sphynx]# icecast -c /usr/local/etc/icecast.xml<br>Server startup failed. Exiting<br>[root@sphynxradio sphynx]# <br><br>AT THIS POINT WE DON'T UNDERSTAND THE REASON FOR THE FAILED START UP…WE HOPE AND PRAY THAT YOU <br>
MAY BE ABLE TO FURTHER ASSIST WITH THIS ISSUE…WE ARE GRACIUS FOR ALL YOUR EFFORTS…<br><br>Thank you,<br><br>Luis Barrett<br></font></pre><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Fu Kite (Eric Labelle) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric.a.labelle@gmail.com">eric.a.labelle@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">my guess would be that the sphynx user does not have permission to write to the folder /var/log/icecast<div>
<br></div><div>try running the following command:</div><div><br></div><div>chown sphynx.sphynx /var/log/icecast</div>
<div><br></div><div>then as root you can execute:</div><div><br></div><div>icecast -c /usr/local/etc/icecast.xml</div><div><br></div><div>The reason you can run the icecast command as root is because when you set <chroot>1</chroot> in the <security> section (which you have done correctly it seems) icecast will change the owner and group of the icecast process to what you specify (in this cast user:sphynx group:sphynx)</div>
<div><br></div><div>right now icecast is starting up correctly and switching users to sphynx on startup however things are messing up because the user sphynx probably does not have write access to the /var/log/icecast directory where it is trying to write the log files.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So fix the permissions on /var/log/icecast and then run icecast as root (which is ok in this case since icecast will set the owner and group of the process to sphynx.sphynx as specified in your icecast.xml file.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#888888">Eric</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Luis Barrett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:getpaid00@gmail.com" target="_blank">getpaid00@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div><pre><font size="4">Hi,<br><br>WHEN ATTEMPTING TO START THE SERVER AS ROOT HERE IS THE ERROR WE RECEIVED…<br>
<br>[root@sphynxradio sphynx]# icecast -c /usr/local/etc/icecast.xml<br>WARNING: Couldn't change server root: No such file or directory<br>
<br>ERROR: You should not run icecast2 as root<br>Use the changeowner directive in the config file<br>[root@sphynxradio sphynx]# <br><br>PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CHANGEOWNER DIRECTIVE IN THE CONFIG FILE WAS PREVIOUSLY EDITED AS: <br>
<br><br><security><br> <chroot>1</chroot><br> <!--<br> <changeowner><br> <user>root</user><br> <group>root</group><br> </changeowner><br>
<br><br><br>WE THEN LOGGED OUT AS ROOT AND ATTEMPTED TO START THE SERVER LOGGED IN SSH AS SPHYX <br>AND RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING ERROR <br><br>sphynx@sphynxradio ~]$ icecast -c /usr/local/etc/icecast.xml<br>WARNING: Cannot change server root unless running as root.<br>
<br>FATAL: could not open error logging (/var/log/icecast/error.log): Permission denied<br>FATAL: could not open access logging (/var/log/icecast/access.log): Permission denied<br>FATAL: Could not start logging<br>[sphynx@sphynxradio ~]$ su<br>
<br><br>PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CHANGEOWNER DIRECTIVE WAS EDITED AS SUCH PRIOR TO ATTEMPTING TO START THE SERVER...<br><security><br> <chroot>1</chroot><br> <!--<br> <changeowner><br>
<br> <user>sphynx</user><br> <group>sphynx</group><br> </changeowner><br><br>BASED ON THE NATURE OF THE ERRORS IT WOULD SEEM TO US THAT OUR ISSUES ARE IN THE PERMISSIONS…CAN YOU SHED ANY LIGHT ON <br>
<br>THIS ISSUE FOR US AS IT WOULD BE OF GREAT ASSISTANCE…</font></pre></div></div>Thank you,<br><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Luis Barrett</span></font><br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote">
<div>On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Fu Kite (Eric Labelle) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric.a.labelle@gmail.com" target="_blank">eric.a.labelle@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Ok well you state yourself that you are getting an XML error when you try to start icecast... Have you attempted to validate your XML? <div>
<div><br></div><div>>><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;"><b>Fatal: error parsing config file [icecast/usr/local/etc/icecast.xml]</b></span></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><b><br></b></span></font></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">What command are you running to start it? i would assume it's "icecast -c /icecast/usr/local/etc/icecast.xml" which would mean to me that somehow you have a top level directory called icecast which is non-sense. I don't know of any linux system that has their /usr directory located inside any other folder (it's a top level directory) so i'm gonna go nuts and assume it's located in /usr/local/etc/icecast.xml which would seem a lot more logical... also assuming the xml is valid and the permissions on the xml file are ok what you need to run icecast would be</span></b></span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></b></span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">icecast -c /usr/local/etc/icecast.xml</span></b></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">That's assuming the only thing wrong with your setup is the command you are entering at the prompt... ie it's looking for the file in /icecast/usr/local/etc/icecast.xml and can't find it.</span></b></span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">But you know what, nobody here has any clue what your setup looks like. You have provided lots of information but most of it doesn't help diagnose your problem since for me to really know whether my solution will help you i would need to at least know what command you are running to start icecast (I'm forced to assume from the error you posted that you are running "icecast -c icecast/usr/local/etc/icecast.xml" which as i stated earlier doesn't at first glance seem to me as logical.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">PS: No one here is trying to make you waste time... everyone is trying to help based on the information you have given. Your first two email talks about locating the .pid file which of course will not be created till you start icecast... then finally you mention the error I addressed in this message but you only give us partial information (the actual error) and not what command you are running to try and start it up.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">Everyone here is doing their best to help you. None of the answers i have seen in this thread were misleading... they directly addressed the problem stated in your first two emails which it turns out were not your problem at all (you either have an error in your xml or icecast can't read the file - either you are giving it the wrong location on the command line or the user icecast is attempting to run under does not have the necessary permission to read it) (XML validator you can use to double check the integrity of your icecast.xml -> <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp" target="_blank">http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp</a>)</span></font></div>
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</b></span></font></div></span></span></font></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Luis Barrett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:getpaid00@gmail.com" target="_blank">getpaid00@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div>Hi Icecast,<br><br>My name is Luis Barrett as you know, for past couple of days now I been having problem getting icecast started. The first thing<br>
I notice that we need to have a icecast.pid file but reading the script it say when you start up icecast it will create the icecast.pid<br>
file for us. So this is my question because now I'm getting upset because no one as been able be straight forward with us. We need<br>to now why can we not start up icecast? So it can create the icecast.pid file and where that in our directory that file need to go? Again<br>
we have a Redhat Enterprise LS 4 reading the some forum and searching online we notice everyone having the same problem on a<br>different Distro. I want to know how to start up icecast on our Distro if you now the answer please reply if you don't know the answer <br>
please let me know that you don't know the answer because I respect more if don't know the answer then just prolonging the issue<br>or just direct me to the person who dose like the person who created icecast because right we are getting very upset that no one can <br>
not give us a straight answer. <br><br>Thank you,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Luis Barrett <br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Keith Roberts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keith@karsites.net" target="_blank">keith@karsites.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Geoff Shang wrote:<br>
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To: Luis Barrett <<a href="mailto:getpaid00@gmail.com" target="_blank">getpaid00@gmail.com</a>><br>
From: Geoff Shang <geoff@QuiteLikely.com><div><br>
Subject: Re: [Icecast] Icecast start up script for icecast<br>
<br></div><div><div></div><div>
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Luis Barrett wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
We already have icecast install we our just trying to it started. In the icecast started script we need the icecast.pid file and we just want to know were in the directory is the icecast.pid file or do we have to create one if we do in which directory?<br>
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The Icecast PID file will be created by Icecast itself when it is started.<br>
<br>
The location of the file is defined in the config file icecast.xml.<br>
<br>
If it's not there or commented out, it appears that no PID file is created<br>
(i.e. that there's no default location). I say this because my running<br>
Icecast server on my home machine doesn't seem to have one and it's<br>
commented out in the config file.<br>
<br>
I guess you can put it anywhere, but there's probably a standard location<br>
for such things and it may even be specified in your config file.<br>
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<br>
Hi Geoff.<br>
<br>
I'm running Centos 5.5 and the init process says icecast has started, but at shutdown time I get a message saying icecast is not running.<br>
<br>
What needs to be edited in the icecast.xml to get it to startup at boot time please?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Keith<br>
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