How to start sc.serv in Linux Shell ?

[jakobn]

I have Shoutcast server running on a remote Linux Server. What is the shell command to start sc.serv ?

-so far I just made a crontab script with a ./sc.serv command. I run the crontab every 24 hours. The bad news is that linux starts a new PID everytime crontab is run and I end up with 20 open copies of the Shoutcast server.

Please help

Jakob Nielsen
jakob@Suite108.com

[Jay]

don't use cron for shoutcast

just use

cd /path/to/sc/directory
./sc_serv

at an ampersand to the end to send to background
./sc_serv &

[Rafael2127]

I had the some problem using ssh puddy I can always turn the server on by just typing sc_serv and the server will start but the problem is how do I shut it down I can never do that, someone told me that I had to find the Pid number but I don't know where to find that because when you want to kill the server you need that number something like this psx (prosesor) ( kill -9 and the PID ) I tried everything kill shutdown restart but no luck
If someone knows please let us know

[Jay]

yup to kill you just issue

kill <pid>

to get the pid number you can just check the logs or use ps | grep sc_serv

[jakobn]

Jay,

Thank you so much. It works great.

btw. is it normal that listeners hears the station about 2 minutes delayed ? -and is there anyway to control the delay ?

Jakob Nielsen
jakob@suite108.com

[FesterHead]

Check out the results from a SHOUTcast forum search on 'delay', or 'buffer', or 'lag', or 'latency', or 'real time', or...

The answer to all is:
The buffer allows QoS (quality of service) to the listener.
If you want real time, then SHOUTcast is not the solution.

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