<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="">Hi Philipp,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks of the reply. Apologies for the naive question. I guess I am a little confused and need some advice.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I currently have version 2.4.4 installed via apt on Debian 10. </div><div class="">I start that by doing <i class="">sudo service icecast2 start</i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have also installed version 2.5 beta 3 via <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/icecast/icecast-2.5-beta3.tar.gz" class="">http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/icecast/icecast-2.5-beta3.tar.gz</a> and compiled the software.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I start it by doing <i class="">icecast -b -c /path/to/icecast.xml</i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If I want to run it in daemon mode, what is the way to do so?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Damian</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 12 Aug 2022, at 22:06AEST, Philipp Schafft <<a href="mailto:phschafft@de.loewenfelsen.net" class="">phschafft@de.loewenfelsen.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Good afternoon,<br class=""><br class="">On Fri, 2022-08-12 at 20:10 +1000, Damian wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Perhaps it isn’t possible at this stage to run version 2.5 beta as a<br class="">service... Is this the case?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">No. And I'm honestly confused by you amusing something like that. The<br class="">way Icecast 2.5.x is started has not changed at all since before 2.4.x.<br class=""><br class="">So... the way to run it as a service (and I think by that you mean as a<br class="">daemon) is exactly the same as for 2.4.x.<br class=""><br class="">With best regards,<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 10 Aug 2022, at 10:59AEST, Damian <<a href="mailto:db76@riseup.net" class="">db76@riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi, I’d like to know what the recommended (best practice) way is<br class="">for running version 2.5 beta 3 as a service. I imagine that simply<br class="">swapping out the binary of the stable version with the binary of<br class="">the beta version and running the daemon is not advised.<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><br class="">The correct way is to /install/ it. Just like you would with 2.4.x.<br class=""><br class="">Swapping files is very likely to break things. Most users forget to<br class="">swap *all* parts. And if you do swap all parts, how is that any<br class="">different from uninstalling the old version and installing the new<br class="">version? ;)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">With best regards,<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Philipp Schafft (CEO/Geschäftsführer) <br class="">Telephon: +49.3535 490 17 92<br class="">Website: <a href="https://www.loewenfelsen.net/" class="">https://www.loewenfelsen.net/</a><br class="">Follow us: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/loewenfelsen/" class="">https://www.linkedin.com/company/loewenfelsen/</a><br class=""><br class="">Löwenfelsen UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Registration number:<br class="">Bickinger Straße 21 HRB 12308 CB<br class="">04916 Herzberg (Elster) VATIN/USt-ID:<br class="">Germany DE305133015<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Icecast mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Icecast@xiph.org" class="">Icecast@xiph.org</a><br class="">http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>