[mohaa] Admin tool ready for testing

[Warren Woodward]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 06:35:13PM -0400, [-SF-]Shockwave wrote:
> The first thing I would do is check to see if you generate a " has entered
> the battle" message in the server output when you connect.  If not, ensure
> that you have the "developer" cvar set to either "1" or "2" and see if that
> fixes it.  It's pretty easy to spot because if this is set correctly, every
> time a player joins a status display gets printed to the output
> automatically.  If this message isn't being generated, then that's what's
> wrong.

It is.  I failed to add the dir in mohaa_admin to reflect the correct 
path.  It's Monday, you see.  I expect it'll work fine when the server 
restarts (or does this reload every level?... I'll look at that).

> I did find something that I do want to mention.  The default server
> configuration file "mohaa_admin.cfg" doesn't have the BAN_MSG_START and
> BAN_MSG_END options commented out.  In this configuration you will only see
> the player's name print if a ban message is broadcast.  This is because the
> player name is sandwiched between these two variables in order to generate
> custom ban messages.  To get the default ban message to print correctly,
> simply comment out the two options in the server configuration file by
> placing a single "#" in front of each.  I've already made this change to the
> default server configuration file so this won't be an issue in the future.

Just to clarify, you are suggesting that the BAN_MSG_START and _END be 
commented out of the config if someone does *not* want customized 
messages, right?  

> There is no method for adding an IP to the ban.cfg file without manually
> editing it ...yet.  That is one of the things I wanted to add but I decided
> to table it for this initial release.  The client doesn't have anything to
> do with the ban.cfg file at this point.  It is handled exclusively by the
> server monitoring process and is re-read with each player connection to the
> server.

Cool.  Not a problem at all.  I think we're all pretty confortable with a 
simple text exit, anyway.

> 
> I have tested this on my own RedHat 7.2 server and have seen it tested on a
> RedHat 7.3 box and a <Ctrl><C> effectively cleans up everything.  Let me

And a few minutes after I sent this, I figured that out.  And that the 
tail is envoked by the admin for use.  I'm here now, you can start class.

> Keep 'em coming, Warren!

I can't.  You're answering everything.  I"ll be toying more tonight when I 
can concentrate and test more.


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