Symlinking should work fine still, just symlink to your server directory
and run "./steam".
- Alfred
Joachim Sehlstedt wrote:
> I do that, but when you have 4+ servers on a box it was more easy just
> to symlink the binary in to the directory. Guess I have to change this
> for all our installations now.
>
> greetings
> Joachim Sehlstedt
>
> Alfred Reynolds wrote:
>
>> Enforcing you run it from the installation directory solves updating
>> problems with people running old versions without knowing. In general
>> you should run steam from your main hlds directory.
>>
>> - Alfred
>>
>> Joachim Sehlstedt wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Why did valve remove the support for running the steambinary out of
>>> it installation folder?
>>>
>>> open("./test1.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
>>> or directory) write(1, "Unable to load test module \"test"...,
>>> 38Unable to load test module "test1.so"
>>>
>>> ./steam -command update -game cstrike -dir . -verify_all
>>> Checking bootstrapper version ...
>>> Updating Installation
>>> Unable to load test module "test1.so"
>>> "steam" must be run from the directory it is installed in.
>>> You can ensure this by running: "./steam" from its installation
>>> directory.
>>>
>>> I actually have to run it as ./steam in /usr/sbin now where it's
>>> installed. This breaks the automatic update feature when a server
>>> is restarted.
>>>
>>> greetings
>>> Joachim Sehlstedt
>>>
>>> Alfred Reynolds wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> We have released an update to the Half-Life 1 Engine. If you run
>>>> any mod that uses the Half-Life 1 Engine you should get this
>>>> update. To get the update run the hldsupdatetool.
>>>>
>>>> This update fixes the "-sport" parameter and makes Steam use the
>>>> same IP as your server (for multi-homed machines).
>>>>
>>>> This update also increases the minimum OS requirements for Linux
>>>> users to GLIBC 2.3.2 (to match the current requirement for the
>>>> Source Engine). The hldsupdatetool will verify your OS version and
>>>> tell you if there is a problem.
>>>>
>>>> For more details on the release go here:
>>>> http://steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=481
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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