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I think you should read 'man chown', it looks to me as though<br>
the first command you got from Fu Kite may have been a typo,<br>
unless there is something i don't know about putting a '.' between<br>
the user and group name in chown.<br>
<br>
i think what you wanted to do was (notice the colon):<br>
<br>
$ chown -R sphynx:sphynx /var/log/icecast<br>
<br>
also showing us an:<br>
<br>
$ ls -al /var/log/icecast<br>
<br>
would be very helpful.<br>
<br>
On 2/22/11 12:52 AM, Luis Barrett wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTikodSJhJ1Afq0vCTwcdJDd4w_b227HN50grG1UA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<pre><font size="4">Hi,
WE MADE THE CHANGE OF PERMISSION FOR /VAR/LOG/ICECAST THEN LOGGED IN AS ROOT AND ATTEMPTED TO
START THE SERVER BUT HERE IS THE ERROR THAT RESULTED:
[sphynx@sphynxradio ~]$ chown sphynx.sphynx /var/log/icecast
[sphynx@sphynxradio ~]$ su
Password:
[root@sphynxradio sphynx]# icecast -c /usr/local/etc/icecast.xml
Server startup failed. Exiting
[root@sphynxradio sphynx]#
AT THIS POINT WE DON'T UNDERSTAND THE REASON FOR THE FAILED START UP…WE HOPE AND PRAY THAT YOU
MAY BE ABLE TO FURTHER ASSIST WITH THIS ISSUE…WE ARE GRACIUS FOR ALL YOUR EFFORTS…
Thank you,
Luis Barrett
</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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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 class="h5"><br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:40
PM, Luis Barrett <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
<pre><font size="4">Hi,
WHEN ATTEMPTING TO START THE SERVER AS ROOT HERE IS THE ERROR WE RECEIVED…
[root@sphynxradio sphynx]# icecast -c /usr/local/etc/icecast.xml
WARNING: Couldn't change server root: No such file or directory
ERROR: You should not run icecast2 as root
Use the changeowner directive in the config file
[root@sphynxradio sphynx]#
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CHANGEOWNER DIRECTIVE IN THE CONFIG FILE WAS PREVIOUSLY EDITED AS:
<security>
<chroot>1</chroot>
<!--
<changeowner>
<user>root</user>
<group>root</group>
</changeowner>
WE THEN LOGGED OUT AS ROOT AND ATTEMPTED TO START THE SERVER LOGGED IN SSH AS SPHYX
AND RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING ERROR
sphynx@sphynxradio ~]$ icecast -c /usr/local/etc/icecast.xml
WARNING: Cannot change server root unless running as root.
FATAL: could not open error logging (/var/log/icecast/error.log): Permission denied
FATAL: could not open access logging (/var/log/icecast/access.log): Permission denied
FATAL: Could not start logging
[sphynx@sphynxradio ~]$ su
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CHANGEOWNER DIRECTIVE WAS EDITED AS SUCH PRIOR TO ATTEMPTING TO START THE SERVER...
<security>
<chroot>1</chroot>
<!--
<changeowner>
<user>sphynx</user>
<group>sphynx</group>
</changeowner>
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
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
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:eric.a.labelle@gmail.com"
target="_blank">eric.a.labelle@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
</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>
<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;">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
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp"
target="_blank">http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp</a>)</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span
style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span
style="border-collapse: separate;
font-family: arial;">
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span
style="border-collapse:
collapse;"><b><br>
</b></span></font></div>
</span></span></font></div>
<div>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<div>
<div>On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:11 PM,
Luis Barrett <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
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>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
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:keith@karsites.net"
target="_blank">keith@karsites.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
</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>
<br>
<blockquote
class="gmail_quote"
style="margin: 0pt 0pt
0pt 0.8ex; border-left:
1px solid rgb(204, 204,
204); padding-left:
1ex;">
To: Luis Barrett <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:getpaid00@gmail.com" target="_blank">getpaid00@gmail.com</a>><br>
From: Geoff Shang
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:geoff@QuiteLikely.com"><geoff@QuiteLikely.com></a>
<div><br>
Subject: Re: [Icecast]
Icecast start up
script for icecast<br>
<br>
</div>
<div>
<div>
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011,
Luis Barrett wrote:<br>
<br>
<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>
</blockquote>
<br>
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>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<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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