Icecast and user permissions

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microtechno · Post by **microtechno** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:20 pm

I just installed icecast to broadcast media from my server but i keep getting the error

server icecast # icecast -c /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml
Changed groupid to 1002.
Changed userid to 1002.
FATAL: could not open error logging (/var/lib/icecast/error.log): Permission denied
FATAL: could not open access logging (/var/lib/icecast/access.log): Permission denied
FATAL: Could not start logging

I dont belive that it is icecast but my user permissions. The user is caller 'ice' and has wheel,audio,portage groups
thanks in advance

erik258 · Post by **erik258** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:32 am

i would change the owner of /var/lib/icecast to icecast and change the owner of access.log and error.log in that directory to icecast as well. i thin that should solve your problem right up.

although, i would mention that the preferred method for logging services is to have them use the system logger; you may want to configure icecast to do so, if possible.

microtechno · Post by **microtechno** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:02 am

How do i change the permissions of the files.
I am not running a gui (KDE,gnome etc).
also how do i make icecast use the system logger.
thanks

erik258 · Post by **erik258** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:33 am

just change the permissions and let icecast do it's own logging; and keep an eye on how large it gets.

i have no idea how to configure icecast. but there may be a log option in its configuration files i guess.

microtechno · Post by **microtechno** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:45 am

the thing is though that i dont know how to change the permissions to a folder or file.
I also cannot find anywhere on the web, gentoo.org and this forum so far that shows how to change permissions.
Also i as i am new to linux and gentoo i dont know how to change the loging.
The loging in icecast can be set to a size and is set to 50kb i belive. it is the config file (got that part right)
thanks

slackline · Post by **slackline** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:11 pm

microtechno wrote:the thing is though that i dont know how to change the permissions to a folder or file.
I also cannot find anywhere on the web, gentoo.org and this forum so far that shows how to change permissions.

To change ownership see...

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man chown

To change permissions see...

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man chmod

microtechno · Post by **microtechno** » Fri May 18, 2007 2:02 pm

well at the moment i cant do anything
i have a corrpted hda3, so nothing will work
i need to work on that soon.

slackline · Post by **slackline** » Fri May 18, 2007 2:08 pm

You'll probably need to know about fsck then (See man fsck for more details).

microtechno · Post by **microtechno** » Fri May 18, 2007 2:26 pm

at the moment i am on windows (unfortunatly) havent got around to putting gentoo on my laptop. Need time and lots of it because i have a slow connection to the net.
what is fsck...?
thanks

EDIT::
Dont worry i found out what it is on the net