Did you try putting it in the autoexec.cfg?

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On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:19 PM, David Parker <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't know why the autoupdate option would have anything to do with the
> value of maxplayers.  I'm pretty sure it's separate.
>
> I tried reproducing this behavior on our server and I was not able to do
> it.  I have "+maxplayers 24" in the startup command line.  I added
> "maxplayers 16" to the server.cfg file and restarted the server, but it
> still had 24 player slots.  I tried "exec server.cfg" in the console but
> maxplayers still remained 24.  I even tried all of this again using
> "-maxplayers" instead of "+maxplayers" in the startup options, but still
> nothing.  Any maxplayers value I put in the server.cfg file has no effect as
> long as maxplayers is specified on the command line when the server is
> started.  My server also has the autoupdate option set.
>
> What I *was* able to do was crank up the number of max visible players.  I
> set "+maxplayers 16" on the startup line and put "sv_maxvisibleplayers 24"
> in the server.cfg file.  After the server started, both "maxplayers" and
> "status" in the console say 16, but an A2S_INFO query says there are 24
> player slots.  Those extra 8 slots can't really be used, but they show up in
> the query.  Could this be what he is doing?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Arnaud DUMAS de RAULY <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 5:16 pm
> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Changing Number of Slots fix
> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list <
> [email protected]>
>
> > Thanks all for your suggestions, but when a customer restarts
> > the
> > server from his panel, the command line executes automatically
> > the
> > right slot count. Which is why I don't understand how he does it
> > and
> > makes me wonder if it has something to do with the autoupdate
> > commande
> > line.
> >
> > Le 4 août 09 à 21:15, Marcel a écrit :
> >
> > > Write a small cron script that checks the slots and restarts
> > the
> > > server
> > > with if the slotcount is wrong. And when you're doing this,
> > you can
> > > also
> > > check if your customer has set a password (if it's a private
> > server).>
> > > I think the customer will complain if his server restarts
> > every 5
> > > mins ;)
> > >
> > >
> > > Marcel
> > >
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