[TriLUG] Icecast.conf and debian

[Andrew Perrin]

Thanks to all who answered. What I found out is that, as sometimes
happens, debian's "stable" icecast-server package is somewhat out of date,
and the configuration setup has changed. Rather than bother with that, I
ended up building the latest (1.3.0) from source, which was about as easy
as it could be: tar xzvf, cd, configure, make, make install.  According to
debian policy, I installed in /usr/local/icecast, the conf file is in
/usr/local/icecast/conf, and it all works beautifully.

Andy Perrin

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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


On 13 Oct 2001, Ed Warnicke wrote:

> 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.
> > 
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> > 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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