Icecast - Dec 2004 - startup problem: how to start ices under regular user account

Hello ices experts,

I am running icecast2 and ices2 which are working fine for me. What i 
can't find in docs is how to startup ices tu run under certain user 
account, not as root.

I tried to setuid /usr/bin/ices and change owner without luck... ices 
can't be started!

Also, i tried as root, to see if next command will work:

su -l alex -s /bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/ices /etc/ices-live.xm &"

or i added the above line in my startup scripts...but no ices process is 
running!

I need this feature for my startup script, because i don't want to allow 
ices to be started as root!

Any help will be appreciated!

Regards,
Alex

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:13:16PM +0200, Alex wrote:
> I am running icecast2 and ices2 which are working fine for me. What i 
> can't find in docs is how to startup ices tu run under certain user 
> account, not as root.
here's an init script i've been using -- kind of rough, but should
probably do the trick.

http://www.zephyr.to/icecast/myices

you can put it in /etc/init.d/icecast, and probably change DUMP=false,
and USER=alex or whatever :)

hth
p.

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