[Icecast] How to killsource from command line?

chiapas at aktivix.org
2008-10-27T19:35:55Z

Hi

Apologies - this is more of a bash question than an Icecast question.
When I visit the listmounts.xsl page for my Icecast server, for
example here:

http://icecast.example.com:8000/admin/listmounts.xsl

I see that each mountpoint is listed like so:

> Mount Point : (/example.mp3)
> List Clients | Move Listeners |  Update Metadata | Kill Source
>
> 35 Listener(s)

The code for the "Kill Source" link resembles something like this:

http://icecast.example.com:8000/admin/killsource.xsl?mount=/example.mp3

So is there a way of invoking this URL from bash - perhaps like this:

lynx -auth user:password
http://icecast.example.com:8000/admin/killsource.xsl?mount=/example.mp3

Only the above doesn't work.

I would use this for the automated detaching of unwanted mountpoints,
perhaps in a cron job.

Many thanks in advance.

Chip Scooter