Administrator’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Administrator’s Guide
- Contents
- QuickTime Streaming
- Getting Started
- Managing Your Streaming Server
- User Interface
- Working With Streaming Server Admin
- Viewing Streaming Status
- Starting or Stopping Streaming Service
- Working With Connected Users
- Changing Server Settings
- Controlling QuickTime Broadcaster Remotely
- Working With General Settings
- Working With Port Settings
- Working With Log Settings
- Viewing Error Logs and Access History
- Media
- About Instant-On Streaming
- Preparing Prerecorded Media
- Preparing Audio
- Streaming Media Files With Multiple Sources
- Streaming File Formats Like .avi, .text, and .wav
- Exporting a QuickTime Movie as a Hinted Movie
- Improving the Performance of Hinted Movies
- Session Description Protocol (SDP) Files
- Streaming Live Media
- Viewing Streamed Media From a Client Computer
- Setting Up a Web Page With Streamed Media
- Creating Links to MP3 Playlists
- Bandwidth Considerations
- Playlists
- Relays
- Security
- Resetting the Streaming Server Admin User Name and Password
- Controlling Access to Streamed Media
- Creating an Access File
- What Clients Need to Access Protected Media
- Adding User Accounts and Passwords
- Adding or Deleting Groups
- Making Changes to the User or Group File
- Installing SSL
- Using Automatic Unicast (Announce) With QTSS or DSS on a Separate Computer
- Executing a Command With sudo
- Streaming on Port 80
- Firewalls and Networks With Address Translation
- Problems
- Streaming Server Admin Is Not Responding
- The Server Doesn’t Start Up or Quits Unexpectedly
- The Streaming Server Computer Crashes or Is Restarted
- Media Files Do Not Stream Properly
- Streaming Performance Seems Slow
- Users Can’t Connect to Your Broadcast
- Users See Error Messages While Streaming Media
- Users Can’t See Live Streamed Media
- You’re Having Problems With Playlists
- Advanced
- How do I bind the Streaming Server Admin computer to a single IP address if my machine is multiho...
- How do I bind QTSS or DSS to a single IP address if my machine is multihomed?
- How do I kill and restart the QuickTime Streaming Server processes in Mac OS X Server?
- How do I kill and restart Streaming Server Admin processes in Mac OS X Server?
- How do I get QTSS to re-read its preferences without killing or restarting the server?
- How do I configure QTSS to host streams from multiple user media directories?
- User Interface
- Setup Example
- Glossary
- Index
Managing Your Streaming Server 51
How do I kill and restart the QuickTime Streaming Server processes in
Mac OS X Server?
To kill the QuickTime Streaming Server (QTSS) processes:
1 Find the process ID (PID) for each process, then enter a command in Terminal to “kill” the
processes and restart QTSS.
You must be logged in as root to perform this task.
2 Open the Terminal application in the Finder and enter the following:
ps -ax | grep QuickTimeStreamingServer
Text similar to the following should appear:
949 ?? Ss0:00.00 /usr/sbin/QuickTimeStreamingServer
950 ?? S 0:00.13 /usr/sbin/QuickTimeStreamingServer
965 std S+0:00.00 grep QuickTimeStreamingServer
3 Find the process IDs of the QuickTimeStreamingServer processes. In this example, they are
949 and 950. To kill them, enter the following:
kill 949 950
4 Finally, restart the server by entering the following:
QuickTimeStreamingServer
How do I kill and restart Streaming Server Admin processes in
Mac OS X Server?
To kill and restart Streaming Server Admin processes, you need to find the process ID (PID)
for the streamingadminserver process, enter a command in Terminal to kill the process, and
then restart Streaming Server Admin.
You must be logged in as root to perform this task.
To kill and restart a process:
1 Open the Terminal application in the Finder and enter the following:
ps -ax | grep streamingadminserver
Text similar to the following should appear:
947 ?? Ss 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/streamingadminserver.pl
970 std S+ 0:00.00 grep streamingadminserver
2 Find the process ID of the streamingadminserver process. In this example, it is 947. To kill
the process, enter the following:
kill 947
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