[mohaa] Server control programs for Linux

[[-SF-]Shockwave]

Hello all,

I want to thank Rodney and scratch for pointing out the "clientkick"
command.  I've been trying to use "kill" because I didn't know there was any
other command available.  This makes everything so much simpler!

As far as determining which players are on what team, I have noticed that
setting "developer 2" shows more detailed information, however it only
displays the command invoked and doesn't indicate whether it was successful
or not.  As a test, I removed the localization file from my global directory
and it helps a little because it will yield a "localization error" message
with text stating either that the join took place or the error encountered
while executing the command.  Another idea I had was to track every kill and
check it against the team scores.  With the developer cvar set greater than
0, every kill message is broadcast to the log.  If the team score is
decreased after a kill that isn't a suicide, then it makes sense that a
player killed a teammate.  I'm going to have to play around with it a bit
and see if I can get it to work reliably.

Regarding scratch's question about how banning would work, here's my idea.
Each time a player joins, the list of players and their IP's would be
refreshed and tabled.  I figure that a common file of banned IP's can be
read and kept in memory for comparison.  If there is a match, the player
would be kicked.  Since I'm already intercepting the server log output and
have the ability to interrogate it, this should be possible.

I also like the idea of changing maps and game types dynamically.  There is
a server variable "sv_maplist" that I have manually edited via the server
console to make the map rotation change without forcing a restart, but I
didn't try changing to a map that wasn't applicable to the game type already
set.  I'll play around with that and see what specifying a map that belongs
to a different gametype will do when I get a chance.  Thanks for the
suggestion, Hammer.

For the record, I haven't seen Crow King's utility but I hear that a lot of
people like it.  I guess I should download it and give it a try at some
point.  I personally didn't want to be forced to use a Windows PC to handle
that function which is part of the reason I wanted to develop something that
would run under Linux.

I want to be sure to say that I really appreciate all the feedback.  Anyone
who is interested in kicking the tires will definitely get the opportunity.
I do have a stable version of the programs currently running on my own
server, but as I said before they only have the limited functionality I
mentioned earlier.  Once I smooth some of the rough edges, I'll release them
for testing.


Shockwave