[cod] Just starting out

[John Kennington]

Here is a good place to start.  Most of your questions will be
answered there:  http://www.fpsadmin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=97
You can get the game config files at the same place.  Where they go
depends on whether you are running mods or not.  /main is the default
location.


On Dec 17, 2007 7:48 AM, Jon Pastore <jpastore at emdistro.com> wrote:
> Hello, new to Linux game server setup, but I have a descent amount of Linux
> knowledge.
>
> I have a CentOS server setup running OpenVZ for a variety of projects. I
> followed the instructions in the README that came with the Icculus Linux
> server and it claims to be running but I can't connect. I was looking for a
> definitive HOWTO setup a Linux CoD4 server. In the README I see a reference
> to the a config file but I'm unable to locate where the config file should
> be so I can set parameters, mainly a password for the server. Also, can
> someone give me a list of ports to open. I tried adding rules to iptables to
> allow for UDP connections on a variety of ports I found listed in forums,
> but I can't get a straight answer on which ports to open, someone claimed
> that 3389 needed to be opened, as this is the RDP port I think they were
> trying to do something shady. As a test I just shut down iptables to see if
> I could connect, and was not able to. Is there a log file I can monitor to
> help debug this?
>
> Is there a service script init.d that I could put into a cronjob?
> Considering the resources used and what people are complaining about
> regarding memory consumption, I would like to have the server only run
> during a set number of hours. Kills 2 birds, I work, and while working
> during critical hours I have my resources available to me and am less likely
> to be lured into playing while I should be working =)
>
> Is OpenVZ an issue? should I move this to the host instead of a virtual
> environment? I'd prefer to keep it in a virtual environment since I can
> contain resource utilization and I have a script I wrote to monitor the bean
> counters in /proc/user_beancounters (essential a flat file that reports
> usage statistics and fail counts). When fail counts increment, I get an
> email. I was actually forced into using OpenVZ because mod_vhs for Apache
> doesn't play nice with regular Apache config files and have really grown to
> like it. This server has 8G of Ram, 250G SATA drives mirrored, host OS and
> guest OS's are running CentOS 4.6, and SELinux is disabled. It's ideal
> because it's sitting at a hosting company with a 100Mbs open pipe and I'm
> only billed for average bandwidth utilization for the month. I contractually
> have 15mbs of average utilization for $139 USD a month and it's $36 per Mbs
> of averaged utilization above that and I'm no where near it =)
>
>
> -Jon



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