[Icecast] Edit icecast.xml while server running

Philipp Schafft
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 06:40:24 -0000

reflum,

On Mon, 2015-10-12 at 00:55 -0500, Camilo Cano wrote:
> Hey, im using Icecast to build a distributed service and I want to
> know, if I can edit the icecast.xml while the server its running

Sure. You can edit the file freely as long as Icecast is not reading it
in the very moment you write it.


> and the changes are accepted, without having to restart the service.

Sure. You just need to send SIGHUP. Init scripts may have a 'reload'
target for that.


btw. What parameters do you want to edit on the fly?

--
Philipp.
 (Rah of PH2)
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