On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:41:29 +0200 "Marcel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bubbled:
> Hi, > > Holy shit - that would be such a huge security problem! Erhm, why? The script gets started by the hlds server with the same uid/gid. No one else could start it as a client. > Please don't to that! > > Instead another method to find out if an update is released would be > great - something you can easily do with a shell script (like > downloading a webpage and "scan" for a message or sth.). Well, I hate that kind of method. The hlds server is the one that already knows about an update in (I think) nearly realtime. So it would cost extra processor cycles to check a HTML site every 5 minutes or so ... -- MyExcuse: kernel panic: write-only-memory (/dev/wom0) capacity exceeded. Martin Zwickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Research & Development TechnoTrend AG <http://www.technotrend.de> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
