On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 01:30, msmith@labyrinth.net.au wrote:> Alan Silvester <mascdman@shaw.ca> said: > > > Hi, > > > > (Sorry for the long email) > > > > As a bit of a learning exercise, I'm trying to place the icecast daemon > > in a chroot jail. I've been mostly sucessful: I can get icecast to > > serve the default stream from its jail, however I can't get multiple > > streams to work. > > Not sure about icecast 1.3.x (it's no longer being actively developed), but > icecast2 has built-in (and tested!) support for chroot()ing itself (and then > dropping root privs). > > Mike > > --- >8 ---- > List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ > icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' > containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. > Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.I'm still wondering why my multiple streams aren't working but I will take a look at icecast2. Thanks Mike. Alan Silvester --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 06:09, Alan Silvester wrote:> As a bit of a learning exercise, I'm trying to place the icecast daemon > in a chroot jail. I've been mostly sucessful: I can get icecast to > serve the default stream from its jail, however I can't get multiple > streams to work.Alan, I was looking into this a few months ago and found a good article on chroot() jailing and it detailed how to chroot() icecast 1.3.x. http://rr.sans.org/linux/daemons.php But Icecast2's facilities for chroot()ing and changing user IDs after startup are definitely superior. -bryan miller --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Bryan Jay Miller wrote:>On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 06:09, Alan Silvester wrote: > > > >>As a bit of a learning exercise, I'm trying to place the icecast daemon >>in a chroot jail. I've been mostly sucessful: I can get icecast to >>serve the default stream from its jail, however I can't get multiple >>streams to work. >> >> > >Alan, I was looking into this a few months ago and found a good article >on chroot() jailing and it detailed how to chroot() icecast 1.3.x. > >http://rr.sans.org/linux/daemons.php > >But Icecast2's facilities for chroot()ing and changing user IDs after >startup are definitely superior. > >-bryan miller > >--- >8 ---- >List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ >icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ >To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' >containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. >Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered. > > >Thanks for the link, Bryan. I'm not too sure what I did (other than rebooting) but the multiple streams now seem to work... weird. Oh well, thanks again everyone :) Alan Silvester --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.