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Running ezstream as a startup service with Upstart

Friday, Nov 14th, 2014

This is a method to run an ezstream icecast2 audio stream as a startup service within a Upstart init system. This method will also work for anything else which needs to run as a service.

I assume you have icecast2 installed and functioning: http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.2.0/basic-setup.html

Create a configuration file for ezstream in /etc/icecast2/ or in a project specific directory:

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