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Viewing Service Logs

You can use tail or any other file listing tool to view the contents of the QTSS service logs.

To view the latest entries in a log:

$ tail log-file

You can use the serveradmin getLogPaths command to see where the current QTSS error and activity logs are located.

To display the log paths:

$ sudo serveradmin command qtss:command = getLogPaths

Output

qtss:accessLog = <access-log> qtss:errorLog = <error-log>

Value	Description
<access-log>	The location of the QTSS service access log. Default =
	/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Logs/
	StreamingServer.log
<error-log>	The location of the QTSS service error log. Default =
	/Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Logs/
	Error.log

Forcing QTSS to Re-Read its Preferences

You can force QTSS to re-read its preferences without restarting the server. You must log in as root to perform this task.

To force QTSS to re-read its preferences:

1List the QTSS processes:

$ ps -ax grep QuickTimeStreamingServer

You should see a list similar to the following:

949	??	Ss	0:00.00 /usr/sbin/QuickTimeStreamingServer
950	??	S	0:00.13	/usr/sbin/QuickTimeStreamingServer
965	std	S+	0:00.00	grep QuickTimeStreamingServer

2Find the larger of the two process IDs (PIDs) for the QuickTimeStreamingServer processes (in this case 950).

3Send a HUP signal to this process:

$ kill -HUP 950

Chapter 15 Working With QuickTime Streaming Server