The FreeCast tracker can be started in command line via the command freecast-tracker (see freecast(1)).

[host:path/to/freecast] bin/freecast-tracker 
create log dir: host:path/to/freecast/log
INFO   [Main]: version 20060629
INFO   [ConfigurationFactory]: Trying to load configuration defaults-tracker.xml
INFO   [Main]: start a HttpTracker on port /0.0.0.0:1665
INFO   [ConnectionAssistantServer]: start ConnectionAssistant server on /0.0.0.0:1666