[cod] PBSetup Problems

[Marco Padovan]

yeah, I'm using rsync as for now :P
still have a cronjob that runs pbsetup on a daily basis(with the destination
as the install skeleton)... but I do not rely very much on it.... I manually
check if there are new version from time to time :P

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:51 PM, escapedturkey <
escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com> wrote:

> Oh, sorry, you are using Linux (didn't notice that part).
>
> Use may want to use a skeleton system:
>
> !/bin/bash
> rm -f /home/users
> chattr -R +i /home/install
> cd /home
> ls -1p|grep /|grep -v install|cut -d "/" -f1 > users
> for user in `cat users`
> do
> rsync -av /home/install/cod4/pb /home/$user/cod4/
> done
> rm -f /home/users
> exit $?
>
> After that, fix the permissions with a script like this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> rm -f /home/users
> chmod 711 /home
> chattr -R -i /home/install
> chmod 777 -R /home/install
> chattr -R +i /home/install
> cd /home
> ls -1p|grep /|grep -v install|cut -d "/" -f1 > users
> for user in `cat users`
> do
> /bin/chmod 700 /home/$user
> chown -R $user.$user /home/$user
> done
> rm -f /home/users
> exit $?
>
>
>
> Marco Padovan wrote:
>
>> well... that in my case didn't worked... So i just updated manually
>> downloading the files from the EB website...
>>
>> even from an enpty pb directory it was fetching an old version of
>> punkbuster from the evenbalance servers.....
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk<mailto:
>> killing at multiplay.co.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>    The fix is usually to just delete the current PB install for the
>>    game and rerun..
>>              Regards
>>        Steve
>>
>>        ----- Original Message -----
>>        *From:* Vaughan Reid <mailto:vaunus at gmail.com>
>>        *To:* cod at icculus.org <mailto:cod at icculus.org>
>>        *Sent:* Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:28 PM
>>        *Subject:* [cod] PBSetup Problems
>>
>>        Hey, I realise this isn’t a list for PB problems but I figure
>>        there’s a lot of server hosts here so someone may be able to
>>        help me. =)
>>
>>
>>        I am having constant issues with PBSetup on Linux. We have
>>        scripts setup to run a PB update using PBsetup over our new
>>        installs but lately it hasn’t been downloading the latest PB
>>        files for any game consistently. Sometimes it will, sometimes it
>>        won’t. For example for COD4 the latest version is v1.740
>>        (v2.180 | A1407) but PBsetup often downloads v2.175. Even if I
>>        run PBSetup over the install several times it will still not
>>        download a new version but again other times it will.
>>
>>
>>        I am guessing there are one or more PB mirrors which aren’t up
>>        to date and whenever this server is chosen by PBSetup old
>>        versions are downloaded.
>>
>>
>>        Anyone else experiencing this issue?
>>
>>
>>        Thanks,
>>
>>        Vaughan Reid
>>
>>        Cubos Gaming
>>
>>
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