Icecast - Dec 2004 - icecast2 setup problem - unable to open logfiles

Zenon Panoussis wrote:
> 
> Dan Stowell wrote:
> 
> [icecast can't write to log files]
> 
> > running it as myself ("dan") - the same as the owner of the
logfiles
> > and of the containing folder.
> 
> >> > -rw-rw-r--  1 dan  admin     0  6 Dec 23:48
icecast2access.log
> >> > -rw-rw-r--  1 dan  admin     0  6 Dec 23:48 icecast2error.log
> >> > -rw-rw-r--  1 dan  admin  1106  6 Dec 23:03 ices.log
> 
> Who owns the directory containing the logs? Is it "executable"
(i.e.
> traversible)? By whom?
I own it, and everyone can traverse it! i.e.:

drwxrwxrwx  5 dan  admin   170  6 Dec 23:48 logs

Dan

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:02:38PM +0000, Dan Stowell
wrote:
> Zenon Panoussis wrote:
> > 
> > Dan Stowell wrote:
> > 
> > [icecast can't write to log files]
> > 
> > > running it as myself ("dan") - the same as the owner of
the logfiles
> > > and of the containing folder.
> > 
> > >> > -rw-rw-r--  1 dan  admin     0  6 Dec 23:48
icecast2access.log
> > >> > -rw-rw-r--  1 dan  admin     0  6 Dec 23:48
icecast2error.log
> > >> > -rw-rw-r--  1 dan  admin  1106  6 Dec 23:03 ices.log
> > 
> > Who owns the directory containing the logs? Is it
"executable" (i.e.
> > traversible)? By whom?
> 
> I own it, and everyone can traverse it! i.e.:
> 
> drwxrwxrwx  5 dan  admin   170  6 Dec 23:48 logs
and the parent "icecasting" directory has the same permissions?

can you include the output from the command showing the exact error
message?

p.

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Paul Melnikow <pnm@zephyr.to> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:02:38PM +0000, Dan Stowell wrote:
> > Zenon Panoussis wrote:
> > > Dan Stowell wrote:
> > >
> > > [icecast can't write to log files]
> > >
> > > > running it as myself ("dan") - the same as the
owner of the logfiles
> > > > and of the containing folder.
> > >
> > > >> > -rw-rw-r--  1 dan  admin     0  6 Dec 23:48
icecast2access.log
> > > >> > -rw-rw-r--  1 dan  admin     0  6 Dec 23:48
icecast2error.log
> > > >> > -rw-rw-r--  1 dan  admin  1106  6 Dec 23:03
ices.log
> > >
> > > Who owns the directory containing the logs? Is it
"executable" (i.e.
> > > traversible)? By whom?
> >
> > I own it, and everyone can traverse it! i.e.:
> >
> > drwxrwxrwx  5 dan  admin   170  6 Dec 23:48 logs
> 
> and the parent "icecasting" directory has the same permissions?
Yes, that's right.
> can you include the output from the command showing the exact error
> message?
Here it is:

dan% icecast -c /Users/dan/icecasting/icecast2conf.xml
FATAL: could not open error logging
FATAL: could not open access logging
FATAL: Could not start logging
dan% 

This is icecast 2.0.1 by the way, installed via darwinports.

Thanks
Dan

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:44:10 -0500, Paul Melnikow <pnm@zephyr.to>
wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:33:54PM +0000, Dan Stowell wrote:
> 
> 
> > Paul Melnikow <pnm@zephyr.to> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:02:38PM +0000, Dan Stowell wrote:
> > > > Zenon Panoussis wrote:
> > > > > Dan Stowell wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > [icecast can't write to log files]
> a quick test here suggests that the problem is with the whitespace.
> 
> this works ok for me:
> 
>     <accesslog>icecast2access.log</accesslog>
> 
> but this doesn't do what i'd expect -- i end up with question marks
in
> the filename:
> 
>     <accesslog>
>         icecast2access.log
>     </accesslog>
Aha! That does it.
(I'm right in thinking that kind of whitespace isn't supposed to
matter in XML, aren't I?)

Thanks all for your advice. Icecast now running, and I'll upgrade to
2.1 as soon as I'm comfortable with my understanding of it :)

Thanks!
Dan