sub letting server

[Cyberdoc]

So we took the dive and are sub-letting a server from our big bad box in dallas. So far so good.

I want to give the "client" a ftp account to his cod/main, however, im trying to figure out how to do this whilst not giving him the ability to increase slots.....duh!! Any ideas's how the adults do it???

[jdwright]

1) Exec his client amount after his config file on the server's command line.

./cod_lnxded +exec client.cfg +sv_maxclients 16


He can still change it with rcon, but thats where a AUP/TOS come into play.

[Cyberdoc]

1) Exec his client amount after his config file on the server's command line.

./cod_lnxded +exec client.cfg +sv_maxclients 16


He can still change it with rcon, but thats where a AUP/TOS come into play.

adding +set sv_maxclients 20 is the route i thought of, but again as stated, he can always rcon a new amount. Anyone know how the pro's do it in managed servers.

[MOMMA]

On ours we can change it as well, but if caught we would be in trouble by the company we rent from. So we leave it alone.

[Cyberdoc]

funny, i talked to a repo from fiberfrag and he said, they just wirite a script that checks the slots, then shuts down the server if its not within the limits.........ok forget that, Im a gamer not a scripter.

[jdwright]

That would be very simple to do in Linux w/ rcon.pl.

Just write a script to send a /rcon sv_maxclients to the server, it returns the setting and you check that against what its supposed to be. If its wrong, /rcon quit the server.

[MOMMA]

If he has linux can you write him a script do do it?

[jdwright]

Something like this would work providing you have the rcon pass. There is another way to get sv_maxclients (using getstatus like ASE/Gamespy/Websites use) but I dont have anything pre-written to use that function. That would be the ideal way, because them changing the rcon pass wouldn't affect your script.


#!/bin/sh
SERVERIP=127.0.0.1
SERVERPORT=28960
RCONPASS=testing
MAXCLIENTS="./rcon.pl -s $SERVERIP -o $SERVERPORT -p $RCONPASS -c sv_maxclients"
ASSSLOTS=20
ACTSLOTS=`$MAXCLIENTS |awk -F: '{ print $2 }'| head -c 3 |tail -c 2`

if [ $ACTSLOTS -gt $ASSSLOTS ]
then
echo "Uh-oh someone is trying to steal slots $ACTSLOTS"
#Shut down server
else
echo "Clients in check $ACTSLOTS"
fi


That would also probably break if they had a 1 digit sv_maxclients, you could just adjust the head/tail commands to accomodate for that.

[Cyberdoc]

Much appriciate the time, however, our box is a windows server, not linux. For now Im gonna have to give them acces to the main, an just monitor from ase/ig browser or whatever. If anyone here's of a way to do it, drop me a line.

gg's all cyberdoc@allaboutnothing.net