I have followed the intructions Source Forts have offered but the final command (srcds_run) will not work as there is no file, i assume i have missed something but after re-installing the whole group of files i cannot find the executable.
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What step do i follow to get the srcds_run (variables) command?

Thanks

You mention the word "Linux" and you better have a lot more details about your problem than that. (Where did you put the files? What "flavor" of Linux? How much access do you have to the box? Are you going for more than one server on the box?)


All I can guess is that you missed a step. If the file is supposed to be there, then you didn't unpack something right, or you had the source dedicated server update tool put it in the wrong directory or w/e.

That file is probably just a bash or perl script that launches srcds as a background process for someone who doesn't know how to do it themselves. Its not a real clean implementation anyways, since you gotta run it everytime the box restarts.

So if I had to give advice based on the info you present: Slash and burn, reinstall. I suspect that more than a simple text file is missing. Unless you just can't find the file, then... search?

That's all I got w/o details.


My "advice" would be to write your own bash startup/shutdown scripts and put them in your init.d script directory (or where ever your runlevel scripts are) with proper file links to it in the runlevel 3 subdirectory (init.d/rc3 or sumthin on RedHat to my memory), so your srcds process starts and stops with the box. Of course, you would have to have root or some sort of superuser with the appropriate access on the box to do it. PM me for details about this if you care.

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srcds_run is part of the Source Server install, not something that comes with sourceforts the mod. Your issue must be with your Source server bootstrap.

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just some more information if it can change the situation:
I am running Fedora Core 5 (but updating to 6 as i write this article)
I plan on only running one server on the box
I am a complete noobie to Linux Sourceforts so do not ask how to create a simple script, i have no idea:confused:
I am running it as Root
and in the "home" folder i have the folder "source"

NEVER run an app with a network socket as root!!!!. you can create a passwordless user account and drop to that account when you start the game server.. Else, if you use an init script to start and stop it, (when the machine starts or stops) use `sudo` to run as a different user.. NEVER ROOT

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Thanks, i will create a passwordless account now and totally restart the installation.

I'm assuming that you've using the installation instructions from the wiki? I think they are still nearly identical to the guide on the main web, but I wanted to be sure.

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Questions about SourceForts? Try the wiki.

If you're doing it over, try to get srcds installed and start it with a game of HL2DM before you install SourceForts, to help you pinpoint where things are going wrong.

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I have re-done a few things, solved the main problems and therefore come up with new problems :-(
everything seems ok now but it cannot find a map, it can do the half-life2 deathnatch maps but not sourceforts even though i have copied the files it is looking for a .bsp file, the sourceforts maps come in whole folders that it will not load, i have now created a special account for the sourceforts server and am now running Fedora Core 6. Thanks alot for the previous advice.

when you select a map, you call it by name WITHOUT the .bsp

changelevel sf_tactical

NOT changelevel sf_tactical.bsp

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