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Hello, new to Linux game server setup, but I have a descent amount of Linux knowledge. <BR>
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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?<BR>
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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 =)<BR>
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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 =)<BR>
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-Jon
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