[bf1942] +overlayPath not working and other issues?

[Steven Hartland]

Oh and it seems to open and erase the contents of adminsettings.con
This was when I used an adminsettings.con from bf1942 which I
assume is correct as there is no info to the contrary.

    Steve / K
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Hartland" <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 4:30 AM
Subject: [bf1942] +overlayPath not working and other issues?


> Doesn't seem like the overlayPath is working in the current version
> of the linux server ( bfv_linded-v1.0-20040312.2254 )
> Starting with +overlayPath ends in random settings.
> A truss and a grep shows the following:
> linux_stat64("/usr/local/games/bfv/mods/bfvietnam/2941/settings//serversettings.con",0xbfbfc7c8,0xbfbfc7c8) = 0 (0x0)
> linux_access("/usr/local/games/bfv/mods/bfvietnam/2941/Settings/ServerSettings.con",0) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> linux_access("/usr/local/games/bfv/mods/bfvietnam/2941/settings/ServerSettings.con",0) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> linux_access("/usr/local/games/bfv/mods/bfvietnam/2941/settings/serversettings.con",0) = 0 (0x0)
> linux_access("usr/local/games/bfv/mods/bfvietnam/2941/Settings/ServerSettings.con",0) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> linux_access("usr/local/games/bfv/mods/bfvietnam/2941/Settings/ServerSettings.con",0) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> linux_open("usr/local/games/bfv/mods/bfvietnam/2941/Settings/ServerSettings.con",0x0,0600) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
>
> Creating the relavent symlinks doest seem to help and produces:
> grep -i serversettings t.txt
> linux_stat64("/usr/local/games/bfv/mods/bfvietnam/2941/Settings//serversettings.con",0xbfbfc7c8,0xbfbfc7c8) = 0 (0x0)
> linux_stat64("/usr/local/games/bfv/mods/bfvietnam/2941/Settings//ServerSettings.con",0xbfbfc7c8,0xbfbfc7c8) = 0 (0x0)
> linux_access("/usr/local/games/bfv/mods/bfvietnam/2941/Settings/ServerSettings.con",0) = 0 (0x0)
> linux_access("/usr/local/games/bfv/mods/bfvietnam/2941/Settings/ServerSettings.con",0) = 0 (0x0)
> linux_access("usr/local/games/bfv/mods/bfvietnam/2941/Settings/ServerSettings.con",0) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> linux_access("usr/local/games/bfv/mods/bfvietnam/2941/Settings/ServerSettings.con",0) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> linux_open("usr/local/games/bfv/mods/bfvietnam/2941/Settings/ServerSettings.con",0x0,0600) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
>
> without using +overlayPath I get:
> grep -i serversettings t.txt
> linux_stat64("/usr/local/games2/bfv/./mods/bfvietnam/settings//serversettings.con",0xbfbfc808,0xbfbfc808) = 0 (0x0)
> linux_access("mods/BFVIETNAM/Settings/ServerSettings.con",0) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> linux_access("./mods/bfvietnam/settings/ServerSettings.con",0) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> linux_access("./mods/bfvietnam/settings/serversettings.con",0) = 0 (0x0)
> linux_access("mods/BFVIETNAM/Settings/ServerSettings.con",0) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> linux_access("./mods/bfvietnam/settings/ServerSettings.con",0) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> linux_access("./mods/bfvietnam/settings/serversettings.con",0) = 0 (0x0)
> linux_open("./mods/bfvietnam/settings/serversettings.con",0x0,0600) = 28 (0x1c)
> linux_access("mods/BFVIETNAM/Settings/ServerSettings.con",0) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> linux_access("./mods/bfvietnam/settings/ServerSettings.con",0) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> linux_access("./mods/bfvietnam/settings/serversettings.con",0) = 0 (0x0)
>
> Note: this one includes an open which is good :)
>
> Also noted that is using the old map format. Are we expecting a version thats
> synced with 1.6? I ask as this has vital fixes for the win32 servers to support
> multiple servers and remove the GFX dependencies.
>
> Finally whats BFVIETNAM.pid? There seems to be only one and this would cause
> issues in a multi server env unless this was also stored under +overlayPath
>
>     Regards
>     Steve / K
>
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