[TriLUG] Icecast.conf and debian

[Ed Warnicke]

I believe I've found your wayward icecast.conf file.

If you do a 

dpkg --listfiles icecast-server 

You will find some entries like:

/etc/icecast
/etc/icecast/groups.aut.dist
/etc/icecast/icecast.conf.dist
/etc/icecast/mounts.aut.dist
/etc/icecast/users.aut.dist

/etc/icecast/icecast.conf.dist is an example icecast file for
icecast-server.  If you look in /etc/init.d/icecast you can see the
start directive:

  start)
    if [ -f /etc/icecast/icecast.conf ]; then
      start-stop-daemon --start --chuid icecast:icecast --verbose --exec
$DAEMON -- -b
    fi
    ;;

So my money would be that it expects you to have
/etc/icecast/icecast.conf as the config file. 

An additional mechanism for discovering the location of your icecast
config files would be:

dpkg --status icecast-server

which outputs:

Package: icecast-server
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: sound
Installed-Size: 477
Maintainer: David M. Zendzian <dmz at debian.org>
Version: 1:1.3.11-3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-2), libwrap0
Recommends: makepasswd
Conffiles:
 /etc/init.d/icecast-server 87e1ccbec4254402cc4d302d0068c477
 /etc/icecast/groups.aut.dist c5f5b11643febef19b1f30c08b003520
 /etc/icecast/icecast.conf.dist d3f83ffb4fb8c97fc046e8af3d997641
 /etc/icecast/mounts.aut.dist 0abf0206cc50e0e54e7e2d2307934f9f
 /etc/icecast/users.aut.dist 623617cbd67ba3fae1404f6440ffe85e
Description: Streaming Mpeg Layer III server
 Icecast is an Internet based broadcasting system based on the Mpeg
 Layer III streaming technology.  It was originally inspired by
 Nullsoft's Shoutcast and also mp3serv by Scott Manley.  The icecast
 project was started for several reasons: a) all broadcasting systems
 were pretty much closed source, non-free software implementations, b)
 Shoutcast doesn't allow you to run your own directory servers, or
 support them, and c) we thought it would be a lot of fun.
 .
 Icecast is almost completely Shoutcast compatible as far as we've
 been able to determine.  WinAmp can both send encoded streams as well
 as stream music from icecast.  Icecast can also use the
 yp.shoutcast.com directory services and adds the ability to use other
 directory services.

The output of dpkg --status shows the config files for this package.

I hope this helps.

Ed


 
On Sat, 2001-10-13 at 10:33, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Folks-
> 
> I'm trying to get icecast running on a debian machine, but having one
> rather basic problem: all the icecast docs refer to an icecast.conf file,
> but I can't find it on the machine or get an idea of where it's supposed
> to go. Any hints? It's debian potato 2.2r3 and the latest .deb of icecast.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin at unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
>  Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
>       269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
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