[cod] Just starting out

[Jon Pastore]

Thank you.


-Jon Pastore, RHCE
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On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 07:59 -0600, Clanwarz wrote:

> See if anything here will help you.
> 
> http://files.clanwarz.net/cod4-server
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> On Dec 17, 2007 6:48 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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