[cod] Can't getting COD4 to run on LINUX?!

[Nander Paardekooper]

I've ran it under a user (see the logs...) and the README.linux doesn't state
very well how the files must be copied. I copied the complete "Data" directory
to the serverdirectory but it didn't said you have to have the "main" directory
out of the Data directory, etc., when i tryed that it worked. It just says that
you have to put all those files in there, localization.txt etc.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Clanwarz 
  To: cod at icculus.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 7:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [cod] Can't getting COD4 to run on LINUX?!


  On Nov 28, 2007 11:57 AM, Nander Paardekooper <akra at xs4all.nl> wrote:

    True, i know...

    But again, the found is already discovered, thanks for the help anyways!

    The standard README.linux from Activision is crap.

    Gr,

    Nander.


  It basic but not crap. I find that one thing it fails to mention is that you should run the server as a user and not as root... so if you have all your files on the server, copy them over to a user and change permissions... 

  example:

  cp -a /path/to/my/serer /home/cod4-user
  cd /home
  adduser cod4-user
  chown -R cod4-user:cod4-user cod4-user

  su - cod4-user
  ./cod4_lnxded

  Doing it this way ensures that all file permissions belongs to the user and you are starting the server as the user. 


  --jay 
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