counterstrike server

[Paddy]

I have started getting into CS recently. I have a load of old friends from Uni that moved on years ago. We meet up for the occasional LAN party. I thought that it would be cool to use a spare box and run a dedicated linux CS server....

How easy is this to do???

[Wulfman]

quite easy - if you have enough upload, something over 300-400 mhz "fast" and above 128 mb ram (for a basic server).

setting up the non-official admin-tools (quite a lot available nowadays) can be a bit tricky.

http://www.forumplanet.com/counterstrike/forum.asp?fid=4955

mfg
wulfman

[Paddy]

I downloaded hlds_l_3110_full.bin but i don't know what to do with it... Isobuster doesn't seem to recognise it...

[Wulfman]

a bin file? it used to be a tar.gz file, at least under linux. but that was ... maybe 2 years ago.

STFW!

http://server.counter-strike.net/linuxbasic.html

http://www.techie.net.nz/howto/counterstrike.html

back then it was: d/l, unpack files, start the server with the correct parameters, gogogo!

[edit] just found something:

TO INSTALL: Make the downloaded file executable (chmod u+x hlds_l_3109_upgrade.bin) then execute it (./hlds_l_3109_upgrade.bin).

mg
wulfman

[Paddy]

you take the point!

[Paddy]

yeah - it is a bin file.... any idea what i should do with it???

[Wulfman]

read what I edited in my posting.

are you using windows or linux?

mfg
wulfman

[Paddy]

linux - cheers, i'll let you know how i get on!

[Paddy]

bugger - i didn't downlod the CS server, just the HLDS... oh well - see you in an hour!

[Paddy]

woohoo

Its working great! I threw on adminmod and statsme - took a while to get them to work, but it was nothing short of my tiredness at fault.

Anyway, I am off to bed now (1am).

Thanks for all the help!

Oh - I would appreciate it if anyone can try and see if they can connect as their is a fair bit of automagical routing going on. Although i don't expect there will be any problems.
The ip is 217.155.52.246. -excuse the profanity on the MOTD

night night

[Wulfman]

congrats.

hm. 2am here, exam in ... 8 hours. should go to bed too.

mfg
wulfman

[Paddy]

np, I saw that three people were playing so i joined in

there were getting pings of ~150 which is kinda ok considering i have eDonkey churning away.

[Paddy]

anyone know how to make it run as a service??? At the moment, i am starting the server though PuTTY. This is OK, but as soon as i close the terminal window it kills the server

[Wulfman]

iirc, add a & at the end of the line. but don't trust me this early in the morning.

mfg
wulfman

[Wombat]

No, that won't do it, that will just make it a background job, which will still die when the window closes. You could make it run as a service, but I think that you'd rather use <A HREF="http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/tutorials/screen/">screen</A> to make it so that the terminal window does not die when you close putty.