Hi, I've configured the ices package to stream whatever happens to be flowing into my sound card line input using this roundabout method (seems to work the best given that ices will read from a FIFO but not stdin):
1. aucat writes line in to FIFO at /dev/aucat/.raw; 2. lame reads from above and writes to FIFO /dev/lame/.mp3; 3. ices reads from above and sends to my icecast server. The following commands in a sh script run from root's shell form the meat of the above chain of events: /usr/local/bin/lame --quiet -r -a -b 56 /dev/aucat/.raw /dev/lame/.mp3 & /usr/bin/aucat -o - > /dev/aucat/.raw & /etc/rc.d/ices start However, if I try to adjust /etc/rc.local to include the first two lines (which need to be running before ices gets called by rc_scripts in rc.conf.local), aucat refuses to start. I've also taken the above commands and created a slightly more robust watchdog script that is run as a cronjob. crontab entry: * * * * * /root/bin/wd_ices.sh /root/bin/wd_ices.sh: -------- #!/bin/sh AUCAT_PID=`/bin/ps ax|grep -v grep|grep 'aucat -o -'|sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ .* //'` LAME_PID=`/bin/ps ax|grep -v grep|grep 'lame '|sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ .*//'` ICES_PID=`/bin/ps ax|grep -v grep|grep 'ices '|sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ .*//'` if [ "$AUCAT_PID" -eq "" -o "$LAME_PID" -eq "" -o "$ICES_PID" -eq "" ]; then echo "ices and/or its streams were not running and were restarted on `date`." /etc/rc.d/ices stop kill $LAME_PID > /dev/null 2>&1 kill $AUCAT_PID > /dev/null 2>&1 sleep 5 /usr/local/bin/lame --quiet -r -a -b 56 /dev/aucat/.raw /dev/lame/.mp3 & /usr/bin/aucat -o - > /dev/aucat/.raw & /etc/rc.d/ices start fi exit -------- Unfortunately, this doesn't work exactly as expected either. While aucat actually starts up, cron doesn't seem to like something about it and gets stuck trying to send a message to root. `ps ax` shows the problem, which just stalls there and won't go away: -PID- ?? I 0:00.04 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t If I kill lame (which brings down aucat and ices), sendmail will then get the message through and exit. Can anyone tell me how to get lame and aucat running properly at startup before /etc/rc.d/ices gets called by rc.local? Can anyone tell me how to get the same working with cron without those sendmail problems? Thanks. Breeno
