I am a newbie linux user. I am renting a vps to play with and learn how the linux thing works. This was the best option as i didnt want to upset my windows home network. Anyway the server has slackware 10.2 as a default and the admin say thats what it will stay as so i cant change to debian which would be my choice because of the apt get thing. Im trying to install a shoutcast server but im getting errors and reading the docs it seems i need the glibc6 but i cannot find it anywhere.

Any help would be great

Thanks

Can you post the errors you're getting?

Peace...

martpen69@martpen6:~/shoutcast-1-9-5-linux-glibc6$ ./sc_serv
*******************************************************************************
** SHOUTcast Distributed Network Audio Server
** Copyright (C) 1998-2004 Nullsoft, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
** Use "sc_serv filename.ini" to specify an ini file.
*******************************************************************************

Event log:
<04/19/06@17:02:57> [SHOUTcast] DNAS/Linux v1.9.5 (Dec 27 2004) starting up...
<04/19/06@17:02:57> [main] pid: 19603
<04/19/06@17:02:57> [main] loaded config from sc_serv.conf
<04/19/06@17:02:57> [main] initializing (usermax:32 portbase:8000)...
<04/19/06@17:02:57> [main] No ban file found (sc_serv.ban)
<04/19/06@17:02:57> [main] No rip file found (sc_serv.rip)
<04/19/06@17:02:57> [main] opening source socket
<04/19/06@17:02:57> [main] source thread starting
<04/19/06@17:02:57> [main] opening client socket
<04/19/06@17:02:57> [main] Client Stream thread [0] starting
<04/19/06@17:02:57> [main] client main thread starting
Segmentation fault
martpen69@martpen6:~/shoutcast-1-9-5-linux-glibc6$

Thanks. That's not very informative output, is it. From that output, it's hard to know why shoutcast is seg faulting. Please post the output of this command so we can see what version of glibc you have installed:

$ ldd --version

Did you compile shoutcast from source or are you using a pre-built binary?

Peace...

martpen69@martpen6:~/shoutcast-1-9-5-linux-glibc6$ ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.3.5
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
martpen69@martpen6:~/shoutcast-1-9-5-linux-glibc6$


This was compiled from source and ive checked the config and the permissions. Also tried running as root and get the same problem.

Thanks

Technically speaking, I believe glibc2 == libc6, so I think you have current enough C libraries installed. The problem is it's not clear why shoutcast is seg faulting. Try doing a Google search on "Shoutcast segmentation fault" and see what you find.

Peace...

Nice idea but ive been doing this all day which finnaly took me to here.