Linux help, scripting programs to open?

[ChoaticWhisper]

First putting something all the way down in this forum I hope people see it.

Now I finally got the liveice and icecast to stream my mp3s, Both programs use a good bit of switches, well at least in my case.

I need some kind of script bash, sh, csh, whatever esle there is.
I just need something probaly bash would be easyest. I need to open one in the background or something, then open the other, I dont mind if its hidden or what.
I know this dont make very much sense but maybe someone with help.

[vass0922]

why don't you make an alias

can't remember how it's done, but you can make
alias compile liveice -s -g -ds - ajfjo -lmnop

etc etc
is that what you're referring to?
like eventually i want to set up alias ls ls -la

[pbharris]

you can try

#!/bin/bash
#this executes the first thing
liveice -flags
#this executes the next:
icecast -flags
#fin

[ChoaticWhisper]

Well I was thinking something like this
Kinda like when you /etc/init.d/httpd start and it starts httpd-perl and httpd
Hmm...maybe I need to look at that file.

echo "Starting IceCast"
/usr/local/icecast/bin/icecast -P 8000 -p letmein -c ../conf/icecast.conf

echo "Starting LiveIce"
/usr/local/icecast/bin/liveice/liveice -n StreamTitle -n StreamTitle -P letmein -o 8000 -M

[ChoaticWhisper]

I did that it only started the first one, I dont know what if theres a command to hide it, I went through like 6 programs before I got this stuff working. I know I seen run hiddened somewhere.

[SpookyEddy]

Hi,

Have you tried?:

#!/bin/bash
#
#Streaming Script V1.0

#Start IceCast and place it in the background

echo "Starting IceCast" 
/usr/local/icecast/bin/icecast -P 8000 -p letmein -c ../conf/icecast.conf &

#Start LiveIce and place it in the background

echo "Starting LiveIce" 
/usr/local/icecast/bin/liveice/liveice -n StreamTitle -n StreamTitle -P letmein -o 8000 -M &

#Status message

echo All done....

#### EOF ####

Your first command takes over the console until it finishes so the second never launches, the ampersand should fix that.

Maybe....



Regards

Eddy

[ChoaticWhisper]

Thanks, Eddy looks like that may work, buy due to a recent power outage I think somethings messed up.
I will give it try when I get linux running without problems.