Icecast Set-up , icegenerator isnt starting -(followed Icecast howto from here)

hey all, decided that i wanted my own internet radio stream. have walked through the howto from this site[LINK]http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-a-streaming-audio-server-with-icecast-2.3.3-on-centos-6.3-x86_64-linux[/LINK], i am using centos 6 , for the most part no problems, except icegenerator. the problem im encountering is when trying to run this command from the Howto

Code:

su - icecast -c "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/icecast/latest/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; /usr/local/bin/icegenerator -f /usr/local/etc/icegen1.cfg"

when i run this nothing happens then running the next command to see if icegen is running

Code:

pgrep -fl icegen

also returns nothing

i checked the icegen1.log and the only line in the log is this

Code:

Wed Dec  3 03:36:02 2014: Cannot connect to stream server.

 

Please check if any proxy/firewall is blocking the connection