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 Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 7:37 am Post subject: game servers to run in background - ** init no good, ideas? |
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| Quote: | Hi,
noticed this in the use flags | Quote: | | dedicated - Adds support for dedicated game servers |
does anyone know what this use flag ACTUALLY does?
I'm looking to host a CS and DoD server, among other things..
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I have now have CS and DoD servers working, however they need to be run from console.
is there a way I can
a) get them to start as a boot service / or after boot service - perhaps local.start ?
b) get them to run in the background, rather than taking up a console?
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 7:54 am Post subject: |
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also - any other flags one should include for a stage1 game server build?
perl... or anything like that?
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 11:49 am Post subject: Re: game servers use flag |
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| taskara wrote: | | I'm looking to host a CS and DoD server |
Last year, when I tried the ebuild in portage, I saw that the versions of some mods (adminmod for example) were outdated, so I just built everything from scratch ... you might want to check everything is up to date now, otherwise you'll have to do the very same thing.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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thanks scout,
Steam server does not seem to be in the portage.. so I downloaded it.
I'll have to play with it myself and see if i can get it to work.. an ebuild would be nice though 
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taskara
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I have now have CS and DoD servers working, however they need to be run from console.
is there a way I can
a) get them to start as a boot service / or after boot service - perhaps local.start ?
b) get them to run in the background, rather than taking up a console?
cheers!
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| taskara wrote: | is there a way I can
a) get them to start as a boot service / or after boot service - perhaps local.start ? |
If you are good at cobbling shell scripts together, you can slap something together to put into /etc/init.d/ that you can set up with rc-update wasily enough.
| taskara wrote: | | b) get them to run in the background, rather than taking up a console? |
I recommend 'screen', which is an excellent program that does that very thing, with the added benefit of being able to 'attach' to the process to interact with it, and 'detach' from it later to lave it chugging along. There's a great primer on screen here.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 4:36 am Post subject: |
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great idea.. I'll see how I go!
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:22 am Post subject: |
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anyone know how to pass options on an executable in an init script?
I can point my initscript to | Code: | | /home/games/hlds_l/hlds_run |
but I need to pass a whole bunch of options after it like:
| Code: | | /home/games/hlds_l/hlds_run -game cstrike -map de_dust +maxplayers 8 -autoupdate |
etc
my init script complains that | Code: | | start-stop-daemon: invalid option -- g |
I tried with " " around the command, but then I get | Code: | | start-stop-daemon: stat /home/games/hlds_l/hlds_run -game cstrike: No such file or directory |
any ideas?
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try making a wrapper script. I had one on my HL server, for example, called hlserver.sh, that looked somehitng like: | Code: | #!/bin/bash
cd /usr/games/hlds_l/
./hlds_run -game-tfc -port 27015 +map well |
Then, you just need to call hlserver.sh, and it passes the paramaters to hlds_run for you.
This was on my other server, though, which isn't a Gentoo box yet. 
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| DopeGhoti wrote: | try making a wrapper script. I had one on my HL server, for example, called hlserver.sh, that looked somehitng like: | Code: | #!/bin/bash
cd /usr/games/hlds_l/
./hlds_run -game-tfc -port 27015 +map well |
Then, you just need to call hlserver.sh, and it passes the paramaters to hlds_run for you.
This was on my other server, though, which isn't a Gentoo box yet. |
ahhh I think that did it.
I had already tried this, but in my mad rush trying a thousand things, I forgot
I have created the init script, and it starts steam, however it still sits there in the console.. (which will stop the rest of the boot process)
| Code: | games root # /etc/init.d/cstrike start
* Starting counter-strike...
Auto detecting CPU
Using AMD Optimised binary.
Auto-restarting the server on crash
Could not locate steam binary:./steam, ignoring.
Console initialized.
scandir failed:/home/games/hlds_l/./valve/SAVE
scandir failed:/home/games/hlds_l/./platform/SAVE
Protocol version 47
Exe version 1.1.2.3/Stdio (cstrike)
Exe build: 19:55:53 Jan 13 2004 (2637)
STEAM Auth Server
couldn't exec language.cfg
Server IP address 192.168.0.9:27015
Downloading Security Module from Speakeasy.net ...
Completed downloading Security Module from Speakeasy.net
Server is in Secure Mode.
scandir failed:/home/games/hlds_l/./valve/SAVE
scandir failed:/home/games/hlds_l/./platform/SAVE
couldn't exec listip.cfg
couldn't exec banned.cfg
Adding auth server 65.73.232.251:27040
Adding auth server 65.73.232.253:27040
Adding master server 207.173.177.12:27010
Adding master server 207.173.177.11:27010
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so I don't think init scripts are going to work  any ideas?
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:16 am Post subject: |
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Try this for your script: | Code: | #!/bin/bash
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# Starts an HL server on a screen with the title
# 'hlserver' that can be attached for interacting with the server
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# To attach, type 'screen -r hlserver'.
# To detach, press ^a, d
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cd /usr/games/hlds_l/
screen -d -S hlserver ./hlds_run -game-tfc -port 27015 +map well |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:22 am Post subject: |
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| DopeGhoti wrote: | Try this for your script: | Code: | #!/bin/bash
#
# Starts an HL server on a screen with the title
# 'hlserver' that can be attached for interacting with the server
#
# To attach, type 'screen -r hlserver'.
# To detach, press ^a, d
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cd /usr/games/hlds_l/
screen -d -S hlserver ./hlds_run -game-tfc -port 27015 +map well |
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made changes as per your suggestion, and result: | Code: | games root # cstrike
There is no screen to be detached matching hlserver. |
do I have to configure screen first?
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:31 am Post subject: |
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No, I was just missing a switch.. make the following change: | Code: | | screen -d -m -S hlserver ./hlds_run -game-tfc -port 27015 +map well |
One thing you might want to do, though, is not run the server as root. HL is generally rather secure, but it's better safe than sorry. Make sure you have sudo emerged, make yourself a user for hlds (for example, hladmin), and then: | Code: | | sudo -u hladmin screen -d -m -S hlserver ./hlds_run -game tfc -port 27015 +map well |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 7:00 am Post subject: |
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great!
thank you so much for your help.. I'll see how I go, and report back.
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I'm glad to help! Let me know if there are any problems.
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