Every time I start the server, steam_appid.txt ends up with the ^@ in 
it... even if I've edited the file with nano to remove those extra 
characters. Any ideas as to why that would be happening? Does it pull 
the appid from a different config file somewhere?

Thanks.

Shane Arnold wrote:
> Validation rejections occur when the versions are mismatched between 
> client and server. Delete your steam.inf and steam_appid.txt and run a 
> verify_all to fix. Having ^@ just means you saved it with the wrong 
> encoding. All file edits for Linux server should be done preferably with 
> a text editor that conserves encoding (protip, notepad converts to DOS 
> encoding which will break things).
>
> On 29/01/2010 12:15 PM, Aaron A. Maricic wrote:
>   
>> I am having the exact same problem. My steam_appid.txt has the following
>> in it:
>>
>> 550^@
>>
>> Seems a bit strange with the ^@ ... should that be there?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> David Banham wrote:
>>    
>>     
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> None of my L4D2 servers are getting any traffic and I'm seeing the following
>>> error:
>>>
>>> RejectConnection: [various IPs go here] - STEAM validation rejected
>>>
>>> I can't find any information on what could be causing this apart from a
>>> problem with steam_appid.txt. Mine is currently set at 550, which is as it
>>> should be for Australia.
>>>
>>> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> David Banham.
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