[Icecast] Access.log

Karl Heyes
Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:39:53 -0000

Dick Trump wrote:
> I'm using Simplecast to feed 8 mount points of a 24/7 live stream to
Icecast on a win platform.  When I have the Statistics Relays graphing
activated, I get an entry each minute in Access.log for each of the mount
points.
>
> That particular entry is pretty much useless but of course, being able to
see the IP address of client drops can be useful.  This log grows to mammoth
proportions unless I clean it up on a regular basis (which I'm not prone to
do.)
>
> Is there anyway other than eliminating the graphing to prevent those log
entries.  Otherwise, what would be the preferred method of eliminating the log
completely?  Eliminate the <accesslog> tag altogether?
>

icecast does have the logsize and logarchive parameters that will allow
you to automatically reopen your log files. Icecast won't filter out
specific entries from logging itself but nothing is stopping you from
doing that.

karl.