Basically, you can't run HLDSUpdateTool and SteamCMD in a multi-user
environment. You MUST install a tool/binary for each and every user in
their own ~/bin directory.
Except that you can't even do that because SteamCMD poops it's ugly
41-character temporary directories and custom libraries all over the
place, and you can't symlink to it. Symlinking to the HLDSUpdateTool
works fine, though I'm doubtful about it's self-updating process working
correctly -- it would probably overwrite the symlink.
The take-away lesson is: never try to let these self-updating tools be
used by more than their owner user.
I would go so far as to fix them so that they can't run if they have
go+x permissions, or are being executed by anyone other than their owner
user. That would prevent potential problems with the bootstrap process
overwriting files thus changing the owner and permissions.
You have to cd into these tools installation directories each time you
want to use them.
Unix people don't think this way. It's antithetical to the way
everything on unix works.
Jeremy Agostino wrote:
In a similar vein, I haven't been able to run it as another shell-only
user due to the lack of home folder. I used to run the old update tool
thru some scripts as a shell user. Steamcmd errors out when it can't
save logs to the current user's home folder (since it doesn't exist).
-Jeremy
On Mar 25, 2013, at 5:36 AM, Jesse Molina <[email protected]> wrote:
It is impossible to use steamcmd via a symbolic link. You must CD into it's
directory to use it. Because, potato.
luser@host-->steamcmd.sh
/home/luser/bin/steamcmd.sh: line 29: /home/luser/bin/linux32/steamcmd: No such
file or directory
[~]
luser-->which steamcmd.sh
/home/luser/bin/steamcmd.sh
[~]
luser-->stat /home/luser/bin/steamcmd.sh
File: ‘/home/luser/bin/steamcmd.sh’ -> ‘steamcmd/steamcmd.sh’
Size: 20 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 symbolic link
Device: 903h/2307d Inode: 917517 Links: 1
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 1000/ luser) Gid: ( 1000/ luser)
Access: 2013-03-25 02:17:00.028625973 -0700
Modify: 2013-03-25 02:17:00.028625973 -0700
Change: 2013-03-25 02:17:00.028625973 -0700
Birth: -
[~]
luser-->
Also, while I am complaining...
luser@host-->time ./steam
Checking bootstrapper version ...
Getting version 50 of Steam HLDS Update Tool
Downloading. . . . . . . . . . . .
Steam Linux Client updated, please retry the command
real 12m43.141s
user 0m0.204s
sys 0m0.292s
[~/bin/hldsupdatetool]
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