NAME
icecast - MPEG Layer III Streaming Server
SYNOPSIS
icecast [-P port] [-p passwd] [-l file] [-d dir] [-c cfgfile] [-b]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the icecast command. It was written
for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does
not have a manual page.
icecast is an audio broadcasting system that streams music in the MPEG
Layer III format.
The options are as follows:
-b Force icecast server into the background
-c configuration_file
Use specified configuration file instead of default one
(/etc/icecast/icecast.conf)
-d directory
Specifies the directory in which icecast will search for its
config files. Default path is /etc/icecast
-l file
icecast will use the given file to store server logs. Default is
/var/log/icecast/icecast.log
-p password
Specifies the password used to authenticate stream encoders
-P port
Specifies the port on which the server listens for client
connections (default 8000)
FILES
/etc/icecast/icecast.conf
Contains configuration data for icecast. The file format and
configuration options are described in the html documentation
shipped with the package, located in /usr/share/doc/icecast-
server
/etc/icecast/mounts.aut
contains configuration data for icecast mountpoints.
/etc/icecast/groups.aut
contains configuration data for icecast groups.
/etc/icecast/users.aut
contains configuration data for icecast users.
AUTHORS
Icecast was originally written by Jack Moffitt <jack@icecast.org>,
Barath Raghavan <barath@linuxpower.org> and Alexander Havang
<eel@musiknet.se>.
This manual page was written by Emmanuel le Chevoir <mms@debian.org>
for the Debian GNU/Linux system, and may be used freely by other.