[bf1942] PunkBuster - Multiple Configs

[Andrew Armstrong]

Excellent, thankyou.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Einar S. Idsø" <esi at itk.ntnu.no>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] PunkBuster - Multiple Configs


> I hate putting files for different servers into the same folder since it
> tends to become a mess. In lack of a proper +overlayPath setting for
> BF2, you can still set both mapfile, serversettings-file and pb-dir from
> the command-line using three separate arguments. We start our servers
> like this:
>
> screen -m -d -A -S ${SERVERTAG}_gs ./start.sh \
>     +config ${SERVER_PATH}/settings/serversettings.con\
>     +mapList ${SERVER_PATH}/settings/maplist.con\
>     +pbPath ${SERVER_PATH}/pb
>
> ${SERVER_PATH} is just a config-path completely separate from the
> installation directory. Just copy the bf2/pb dir to ${SERVER_PATH}/ for
> each config-dir, and put your pbsv.cfg-file specific to that server in
> there.
>
> Einar
>
> Andrew Armstrong wrote:
> > Anyone else having trouble with multiple pb configurations per server
> > for one install? Am I going about this the wrong way?
> >
> > I am trying to load a custom PB configuration file for my server, since
> > there are multiple servers running off the same install.
> >
> > Here is what I am writing at the end of my serversettings.con config
file:
> >
> > pb_sv_load "port16567.cfg"
> >
> > I am creating the following file:
> > bf2/pb/port16567.cfg with pb settings in it.
> >
> > Here is what my server console says once its started up:
> >
> > PunkBuster Server: File Not Found: port16567.cfg"
> >
> > As written (notice there is no leading " in the error message, too).
> >
> > From the server console, I type:
> > pb_sv_load port16567.cfg
> >
> > And what do you know, it loads the file.
> >
> > Why is this problem occuring, and how do I overcome it.
> >
> > Server OS: Windows 2003 Server
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > - Plasma