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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!<BR>
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On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 09:00 -0500, John Kennington wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Here is a good place to start. Most of your questions will be</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">answered there: <A HREF="http://www.fpsadmin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=97">http://www.fpsadmin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=97</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">You can get the game config files at the same place. Where they go</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">depends on whether you are running mods or not. /main is the default</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">location.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Dec 17, 2007 7:48 AM, Jon Pastore <<A HREF="mailto:jpastore@emdistro.com">jpastore@emdistro.com</A>> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Hello, new to Linux game server setup, but I have a descent amount of Linux</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> knowledge.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I have a CentOS server setup running OpenVZ for a variety of projects. I</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> followed the instructions in the README that came with the Icculus Linux</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> server and it claims to be running but I can't connect. I was looking for a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> definitive HOWTO setup a Linux CoD4 server. In the README I see a reference</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> to the a config file but I'm unable to locate where the config file should</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> be so I can set parameters, mainly a password for the server. Also, can</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> someone give me a list of ports to open. I tried adding rules to iptables to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> allow for UDP connections on a variety of ports I found listed in forums,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> but I can't get a straight answer on which ports to open, someone claimed</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> that 3389 needed to be opened, as this is the RDP port I think they were</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> trying to do something shady. As a test I just shut down iptables to see if</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I could connect, and was not able to. Is there a log file I can monitor to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> help debug this?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Is there a service script init.d that I could put into a cronjob?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Considering the resources used and what people are complaining about</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> regarding memory consumption, I would like to have the server only run</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> during a set number of hours. Kills 2 birds, I work, and while working</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> during critical hours I have my resources available to me and am less likely</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> to be lured into playing while I should be working =)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Is OpenVZ an issue? should I move this to the host instead of a virtual</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> environment? I'd prefer to keep it in a virtual environment since I can</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> contain resource utilization and I have a script I wrote to monitor the bean</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> counters in /proc/user_beancounters (essential a flat file that reports</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> usage statistics and fail counts). When fail counts increment, I get an</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> email. I was actually forced into using OpenVZ because mod_vhs for Apache</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> doesn't play nice with regular Apache config files and have really grown to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> like it. This server has 8G of Ram, 250G SATA drives mirrored, host OS and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> guest OS's are running CentOS 4.6, and SELinux is disabled. It's ideal</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> because it's sitting at a hosting company with a 100Mbs open pipe and I'm</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> only billed for average bandwidth utilization for the month. I contractually</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> have 15mbs of average utilization for $139 USD a month and it's $36 per Mbs</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> of averaged utilization above that and I'm no where near it =)</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> -Jon</FONT>
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