[cod] Command line issue with fs_basepath fs_gamepath and fs_game setup

[Clanwarz]

+set fs_game mods/pam4 + exec server.cfg etc.



On Jan 24, 2008 10:20 AM, Minte van Dalen <minte.vandalen at planet.nl> wrote:

>  Lo all,
>
> My server was running from fs_homepath /home/myaccount/cod4/
> I have 3 cod4 servers on my dedicated box, and all 3 had the full files in
> it, waste of disk space is a say
>
>
>
> So today I started to set everything of to be working with a combination
> of fs_basepath , fs_homepath & fs_game(if necessary)
>
>
>
> With cod2 (this works correct),
>
> In/usr /local/myaccount/ cod2/  and all the game files in there works, and
> the config and pb files in /home/myaccount/cod2/ with a fs_game set to the
> map /mymod
>
> In /home/myaccount/cod2/ I do not have any original game files, just the
> mod and pm nothing more.
>
> IP=0.0.0.0 (should be the real ipadres)
> PORT=28900
> BASEPATH=/usr/local/myaccount/cod2
> HOMEPATH=/home/myaccount/cod2
> GAMETYPE=mymod
> SERVERCONFIG=server.cfg
> STARTMAP=mp_breakout
> MAXPLAYERS=20
>
> STARTMODE="$BASEPATH/cod2_lnxded +set dedicated 2 +set sv_punkbuster 1
> +set net_IP $IP +set net_port $PORT +set fs_basepath $BASEPATH +set
> fs_homepath $HOMEPATH +set fs_game $GAMETYPE +exec $SERVERCONFIG +map_rotate
> "
>
>
>
>
>
> When I try to get the same setup working for cod4 I run in to problems
>
>
> the setup:
> IP=0.0.0.0 (should be the real ipadres)
> PORT=28910
> BASEPATH=/usr/local/myaccount/cod4
> HOMEPATH=/home/myaccount/cod4
> GAMEPATH=mods/pam
> SERVERCONFIG=warserver.cfg
> STARTMAP=mp_backlot
> MAXPLAYERS=16
> HLTVPORT=28935
> STARTMODE="$BASEPATH/cod4_lnxded +set dedicated 2 +set sv_punkbuster 1
> +set sv_pure 1 +set net_IP $IP +set net_port $PORT +set fs_homepath
> $HOMEPATH +set fs_game $GAMEPATH +set fs_basepath $BASEPATH +exec
> $SERVERCONFIG +map_rotate "
>
>
>
> When I try to run the above, the server won't start till I gets online,
> the config files and the pammod are located in
> /home/myaccount/cod4/mods/pam, the fs_game which is in Homepath
> /home/myaccount/cod4.
> when I remove the +set fs_game part, the server starts as a  CoD4Host
> server, with the build in config file which is located in the game files in
> /usr/local/myaccount/cod4 on the correct ipadres en port en the rest enabled
> what's mentioned in the command line.
>
> Normal wise I would say this config has to work, at least it does this way
> with cod2, but it doesn't, it refuses to read my fs_game located in
> fs_gamepath, and the server shuts down.
>
>
>
> The 2nd startup line I tried was:
>
> Is triggering it from HOMEPATH and the Linux bins in /home/myaccount/cod4,
> so the command line became:
> STARTMODE="$HOMEPATH/cod4_lnxded +set dedicated 2 +set sv_punkbuster 1
> +set sv_pure 1 +set net_IP $IP +set net_port $PORT +set fs_homepath
> $HOMEPATH +set fs_game $GAMEPATH +set fs_basepath $BASEPATH +exec
> $SERVERCONFIG +map_rotate "
>
>
>
> In this case I putted the Linux bins in my fs_homepath and tricker the
> command from there out.
>
>
>
> Is started with only the serverconfig files in fs_game "mods/pam" and the
> PB files in the pb folder, so main docs and zone are left empty
>
> The strange thing now is that the servers seems to boot, reading the
> configs in the fs_game, but the problem stats with the files of the
> "Zone/english" folder, all other files (of the main folder) are read from
> the fs_basepath "main folder" corresponding the the screen logs, but it
> wants to read the files of the Zone folder from my fs_home, so here the
> server shuts down with the error that these files are not here.
>
> So tested some more with the same command line, and added the full Zone
> folder to the fs_homepath dir.
>
> And yes the server is running.
>
>
>
> So for as far as I do know setting up a Linux servers at this moment, I'm
> doing something wrong, or is is a problem with the Linux binaries for cod4,
> I rather think the first then the second.
>
>
>
> If it is me and my command line, could someone help me out, cause I would
> like to have my /home partition minimal in size.
>
>
>
> If it are the Linux bins that just do not want to read the Zone folder
> from fs_basepath while the command line says that there are the files, can
> someone verify that.
>
>
>
> If it that the Linux bins have problems with working with fs_basepath with
> all the files ,and and a fs_game with only the server.cfg in the main or
> in the mods/pam folder and the pb folder, to work together, can some verify
> that for me.
>
>
>
> Cause at this moment I'm totally out of idea's to get it to work to only
> have 1 cod4 folder in fs_basepath, and have different folders for the 3
> servers in /home and have only the configs there in the maps they should be,
> cause 3 times the zone folder in the servers in fs_game is another double
> 6,6Gig on the disk.
>
>
>
> So if anyone can help me out , please
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Minte van dalen
>
>
>
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