Slackware 14.2 multilib - Icecast won't start

glupa4e · 02-04-2017, 12:58 PM

Hi,

i have installed the latest version of Icecast that is available here.
I have edited the configuration file. That configuration used to work. I tried to make some changes to the config file and now Icecast refuses to start. Some details to my config. I have enabled chroot in icecast xml, so the server should run as "user".
Configuration for the paths is

Code:

       <basedir>/usr/share/icecast</basedir>

        <!-- Note that if <chroot> is turned on below, these paths must both
             be relative to the new root, not the original root -->
        <logdir>/var/log/icecast</logdir>
        <webroot>/usr/share/icecast/web</webroot>
        <adminroot>/usr/share/icecast/admin</adminroot

I have explicitely given the write permission to the "user" under which the program should run after starting. The upper directory looks like that

Code:

root@localhost:/var/log# ls -la | grep icecast
drwxr-xrwx  2 root root     4096 Jan  4 15:56 icecast/

The log files have the following rights

Code:

root@localhost:/var/log/icecast# ls -larth
total 408K
drwxr-xrwx  2 root root  4.0K Jan  4 15:56 ./
-rw-r--r--  1 user users 265K Feb  4 12:12 error.log
-rw-r--r--  1 user users 129K Feb  4 12:12 access.log
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root  4.0K Feb  4 19:34 ../

I repeat that configuration used to work. I do not know what have i changed in the config file, but it does not say it can not parse the configuration. When i start Icecast, i get

Code:

root@localhost:/usr/share/icecast/web# icecast -c /etc/icecast.xml
[2017-02-04  12:39:39] WARN CONFIG/_parse_root Warning, <hostname> not configured, using default value "localhost". This will cause problems, e.g. with YP directory listings.
Changed root successfully to "/usr/share/icecast".
Changed groupid to 100.
Changed supplementary groups based on user: user.
Changed userid to 1000.
[2017-02-04  11:39:39] WARN fserve/fserve_recheck_mime_types Cannot open mime types file /etc/mime.types
FATAL: could not open error logging (/var/log/icecast/error.log): No such file or directory
FATAL: could not open access logging (/var/log/icecast/access.log): No such file or directory
FATAL: Could not start logging

Although i have set the log level to debug, i do no see any messages in the files, because it somehow cannot find them.
Any idea how to get out of that situation?

Alien Bob · 02-05-2017, 09:44 AM

Perhaps you need to share your full configuration? As long as you only provide part of the background, no one is going to waste his or her time answering you with relevant suggestions.

davjohn · 02-05-2017, 11:04 AM

If I undertand this correctly you set chroot to /usr/share/icecast but /usr/share/icecast/var/log/ doesn't exist.
All paths are relative to chroot folder. It even says in comment:

Code:

<!-- Note that if <chroot> is turned on below, these paths must both
             be relative to the new root, not the original root -->

So you probably just need to create /usr/share/icecast/var/log/ and possibly other folders.

glupa4e · 02-05-2017, 02:33 PM

Hi,

well i have missed the part with the relative paths. Now i changed the configuration to

Code:

       <basedir>/usr/share/icecast</basedir>

        <!-- Note that if <chroot> is turned on below, these paths must both
             be relative to the new root, not the original root -->
        <logdir>../../../var/log/icecast</logdir>
        <webroot>/web</webroot>
        <adminroot>/admin</adminroot>

and the servrer logs to the desired folder /var/log/icecast