<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Hi and thanks for the replies.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Thomas, is the second option you mention an installation of the daemon necessary for running as a service?</div><div>I have already installed the icecast 2.4.99 from source using <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/icecast/icecast-2.5-beta2.tar.gz" class="">http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/icecast/icecast-2.5-beta2.tar.gz</a> at <a href="http://icecast.org" class="">icecast.org</a> and have built it using …</div><div><br class=""></div><div>./configure </div><div>make </div><div>make install. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>… so I got a little confused by your suggestions.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Dave, in response to your post, /etc/init.d/icecast2 and /etc/default/icecast2 are visible when installing icecast using the apt packet manager on Debian.</div><div>When installing from source however, I don’t see these </div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">You can either manually puzzle up the packaging. The source package can<br class="">be found alongside every package repository:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/xiph:/beta/Debian_9.0/" class="">http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/xiph:/beta/Debian_9.0/</a><br class=""><br class="">It's actually identical for all Debian and Ubuntu releases.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">The other option is to build from source:<br class=""><br class="">https://wiki.xiph.org/Icecast_Server/Git_workflow<br class=""><br class="">so basically:<br class=""><br class="">git clone --recursive https://git.xiph.org/icecast-server.git<br class="">cd icecast-server<br class="">./autogen.sh<br class="">./configure<br class="">make<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Importantly: omit the "make install" and just manually replace the<br class="">binary - and if necessary the web and admin directories and the config.xml.<br class="">Basically "sudo cp src/icecast /usr/bin/icecast2" on a debian-ish system.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""> I assume the source build produced a file /etc/init.d/icecast2.<br class=""> For automated service, "sudo systemctl enable icecast2".<br class=""> Formerly the distributed source also produced the file /etc/default/icecast2 which<br class=""> specified user, group, config file, and enable-state.<br class=""> Not sure if it's still that way.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>