[cod] Just starting out

[Jon Pastore]

Thanks!  and also thanks to Clanwarz. I'll look at those scripts to see
if I can adapt them for my needs... I appreciate the quick response!


-Jon 




On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 09:00 -0500, John Kennington wrote:

> 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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