[mohaa] Admin tool ready for testing
Jackie Lee Choon Yau
jackie at hwzcorp.com
Mon Sep 9 04:53:59 EDT 2002
i am most keen to try it on my server.
Please deliver the package
Jackie
Medal of Honour: Allied Assault v1.11
Server: gs1.gameaxis.com:12203
-----Original Message-----
From: [-SF-]Shockwave [mailto:shockwave at clanshortfuse.com]
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 12:44 PM
To: mohaa at icculus.org
Subject: [mohaa] Admin tool ready for testing
Hello all,
I am happy to announce that the programs I have been working on lately are now ready for testing. I have just finished testing the modification I have made to the client utility and everything seems to be working well. Here is a list of the client utility features programmed so far:
- Configuration file
Like its server counterpart, this program also utilizes a configuration file. Here is a copy:
#
# MOHAA Linux Server Admin Tool - Client Configuration File
#
# - All characters after a "#" on a line are comments and will be ignored.
# - All blank lines will be ignored.
# - The only option that must be specified in this file is PROGRAM. Without
# it, the loader cannot operate. All other settings have defaults already
# specified within the loader itself.
#
#
# Specify the starting value for terminal filtering state. The state must
# either be set to ENABLED or DISABLED. Disabling content filtering will allow
# all server log output to be printed to the terminal screen regardless of the
# filter mode selected.
#
FILTER_STATE = ENABLED
#
# Specify the starting value for terminal content filtering mode. The filter
# mode must be set to one of the following:
#
# ALL - All server output to the terminal will be suppressed.
# NORMAL - Normal filtering will be used. This setting suppresses most
# messages from the server that aren't very important unless you
# are trying to debug. You will still see chat and broadcasts,
# kill/death, connection/disconnection, status displays, most server
# initialization lines, as well as messages that don't show up too
# often.
# CHAT - This mode suppresses everything except chat and broadcast messages.
#
FILTER_MODE = NORMAL
#############################
#
# E O F
It's a little sparse right now, but I hope to add some additional features to it soon. I had the beginnings of a system that allowed custom user filtering but I decided to pull it for now so I could release something and get some test results. I settled for enhancing the NORMAL filter mode so that only a reasonable amount of feedback makes it to the terminal.
- Command line overrides
Options can be placed on the command line to override program defaults not handled by the configuration file. Here is the output generated by invoking the client's --help option:
Usage: mohaa_client [--host host] [--port port] [--cfg filename] [--log filename]
mohaa_client --defaults
mohaa_client --version
mohaa_client --help
--host IP address or host name: name must resolve to an IP address
(e.g. localhost or 192.168.1.1 or www.myserver.com)
--port port number
--cfg path to configuration file, including filename itself
(e.g. /usr/local/games/MOHAA/your_client_config.cfg)
--log path to game server log file, including filename itself
(e.g. /usr/local/games/MOHAA/server.log)
--defaults
prints current program defaults and exits
--version
prints current program version and exits
--help
prints this usage information and exits
- Dynamic filtering commands
You have the ability to issue commands to the client utility to instantly change filtering settings. I had some issues trying to share variables between processes and unfortunately the most direct solution was to use some downloaded CPAN modules and risk operating system support issues. I decided to keep the code to stock modules in order to mitigate the possibility of compatibility problems and ended up incorporating a named FIFO pipe unique to each client process for handling I/O between processes. It worked rather well. Here is the list of commands I have added so far:
*** Client Utility Commands
===========================
/? or /help - display this help text
/?f or /f? - display current terminal filter settings
/f on - ENABLE terminal filtering
/f off - DISABLE terminal filtering
/f all - set terminal filter mode to ALL
/f chat - set terminal filter mode to CHAT
/f norm - set terminal filter mode to NORMAL
I've created a tar archive of the necessary files and gzipped it. The whole thing weighs in at about 8.5K and contains the following files:
13926 2002-09-08 23:27:08 ./bin/mohaa_admin
11890 2002-09-09 00:11:43 ./bin/mohaa_client
4433 2002-09-08 23:32:09 ./mohaa_admin.cfg
1388 2002-09-08 23:32:27 ./mohaa_client.cfg
202 2002-09-08 23:29:34 ./ban.cfg
799 2002-09-08 23:38:54 ./README.txt
I haven't spent a lot of time writing up information, but I hopefully did enough to make it usable. I'll be happy to work with anyone interested in testing and will provide as much additional support and explanation as I can. Anyone who is still interested should email me directly at the following address to arrange delivery:
shockwave at clanshortfuse.com
My first priority will be to fix any bugs or issues with the current feature set. Assuming the testing progresses smoothly, I plan on adding TK auto-kick capability to the next versions as well as a few other things that have been mentioned. As always your comments and ideas are welcome. Thanks again to everyone who has taken the time to offer feedback and help.
Shockwave
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