Re: [OT] Halfd - where's it gone?
Hopefully Rob will respond. I dont have any answers for your questions. On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, EchoBar wrote: what are his needs.. how much bandwidth.. how many hits a day.. ??? i host a few web serv4ers mayb could help or might know a few webmasters that might be able to help -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
Re: UNSUBSCRIBE hlds@list.valvesoftware.com
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Sysop wrote: Is it possible to filter these out on the enws erver? cool! Looks like news group posts are making it to the list again. Why yes it is possible. The glory of procmail allows me to use regex to dump just about anything before it hits the news server. What should I filter out? Anything with subscribe in the body (case insenstitive)? Or is that a little too raw? -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
Re: UNSUBSCRIBE hlds@list.valvesoftware.com
What?? and steal my glory!?! :-) This is completely do-able. Would something like: mirror.valve.hlds mirror.valve.hlds_linux or gateway.valve.hlds gateway.valve.hlds_linux be acceptable? I'm trying to think up a naming scheme compatible with future news2mail gateways. -Ken Buddha-Pest wrote: any chance you could change the names of the newsgroups before too many people start using them? shreve.local.hlds* doesn't make much sense. especially if you were to feed this to another news server. what about: valve.hlds valve.hlds_linux or: games.valve.hlds games.valve.hlds_linux
Re: One last test (DELETE)
Sorry.. gotta do it. Ken Kirchner wrote: At least I hope its the last.
Re: One last test (DELETE)
Ken Kirchner wrote: At least I hope its the last. Still working on it...
Re: One last test (DELETE)
Ken Kirchner wrote: At least I hope its the last. One more try...
Re: [OT] RE: RAMdisk to improve map change performance?? Ithink not
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Stan Hoeppner wrote: This might be worth the money for a niche small dedicated app that doesn't generate much data, but for HLDS files? My CS dir is 384MB alone! Any idea what size RAMdisk you'd need to put all the HLDS files in it? Would you store your log files there as well? If not, you've got some surgery to perform on your HLDS config, in order to write out to your physical disk ban file and logs in REALTIME. If your server goes down (the machine, not HLDS), bye bye ban file, logs, etc. Suffice it to say, trying to use a RAMdisk to host the files for an HLDS server is a crappy idea. Well.. trying to use THAT ramdisk might not fly, but I think Quantum makes something called an SSD (Solid State Drives or such) which is exactly as it sounds. A hardrive made up of memory chips. Ungodly performance compared to your normal spinning disk type media. Of course, they are expensive as hell! :) Oh and they werent very big. I think last I saw they were around 1GB max, but it's been awhile. Cant imagine what a RAID set-up with these puppies would be like. I think the limitations of current drive controllers would be the bottleneck. What you need for the PC is something like the Amiga's RAD device. It was a RAM drive that was recoverable after a reboot (usually). One of the many neat tricks the Amiga was able to pull of back in the 80's. But other than the intial map loading, there isnt a whole lot of disk I/O on an hlds server is there (assuming your arent swapping)? -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
Re: Nondeliverable mail --- AAAAGHHH!!! Not AGAIN!
On 10 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --Transcript of session follows --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The intended recipient's mailbox is full. At least my precious news group is safe... I hope... -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
NNTP Server for HLDS Mailing lists now available.
This is the only time I will spam the lists with this info. Who ever runs the FAQ can feel free to add it to the FAQ. I have added Mail/News gateways of the hlds and hlds_linux to my news server. These two news groups are open to the public from my news server. To connect, add news.shreve.net to your favorite NNTP client. You will see shrevenet.local.hlds and shrevenet.local.hlds_linux made available. The benefits: - Posts/replies will be threaded in typical Usenet fashion. - Posts are transparently relayed between the news group and list. - Group to group posts should be faster than the mailing list. - I can filter mail-loops more quickly than Valve. (one is already in place to kill anything from postmaster@) The drawbacks: - There is a bit more latency between group/mailing list posts. Remember! There is no need to post to the news group and the list! Post to EITHER one, but NOT both! It will take care of it. If you are responding to the mailing list, always use the hlds*@list.valvesoftware.com address. Dont reply to both the list and the news group if it presents you with that option (Pine will). BTW, I have been subscribing and unsubscribing accounts to the listserver all night trying to get this setup. The ListServ has been working just perfectly (and pretty quickly too) for me. I think you guys who have trouble unsubscribing are just f*cking it all up. Do this: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: your subscribed e-mail address Subject: Doesnt matter Body: UNSUBSCRIBE hlds (or hlds_linux) QUIT Send that and see if it works.
Re: NNTP Server for HLDS Mailing lists now available.
Due to unforseen complications, the NNTP mirror is unavailable. I will have this small issue resolved shortly and access will be restored. Sorry for this snag right out of the gate. -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
Re: NNTP Server for HLDS Mailing lists now available.
not sure if my other mail made it out, so my apologies for the repeat:
I am having some authentication issues with my news server. I had to
block outside access to the groups until the software company can tell
me whats going wrong. The news groups are still up and taking in mail
from the list, but they are only accessable locally. This will be
fixed shortly I hope and I will send an email when they are back up.
Sorry for the delay...
-Ken
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
502 You have no permission to talk {ptlddslgw8poold147.ptld.uswest.net},
Goodbye
Configuration:
Account: news.shreve.net
Server: news.shreve.net
Protocol: NNTP
Port: 119
Secure(SSL): 0
Error Number: 502
Code: 800ccca0
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Re: [OT] Halfd - where's it gone?
Rob just mailed the list today about looking for a new provider. I guess he got cut off rather abruptly. He is looking for a new spot to host his site. On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, -AbFab-ShAdy wrote: Anyone know where www.halfd.org http://www.halfd.org has gone? I've been trying to get to the web site for a few days now. ShAdy -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
NNTP Server back on-line
The NNTP server should be accessable once again. There may be an issue with posts to the news group not getting into the mailing list. I'm looking into it. I know it was working before. -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
Re: new record
Oops.. missed that part. Well then I guess you need to run Linux! grin -Ken On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Tom wrote: Did that already! No changes! Thats why i said( AM doesnt seem to be the problem!) -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
RE: New Beta Counter-Strike Server and HLTV
Since the beta upgrade I have had 2 crashes on my CS server (Prior to the beta upgrade it hadnt crashed once since upgraded to 1.1.0.8 and CS1.3). It crashed once on Sep 27 and again on Sep 29 on maps de_dust and cs_backalley respectively. The last line of the logs for both crashes was: Error NUM_FOR_EDICT: bad pointer Anyone else seeing this behavior? I can live with 2 crashes in 72 hours. No problem with that at all. :-) The occasional DoD crash still happens with no apparent reason listed in the logs. -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
RE: HLTV request
On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, K2 wrote: If you're speaking of 1.1.0.8a, I have that... I just don't remember any mention of an autoretry feature. I'll give it a try... thank you very much! Check the readme. They updated it with the new commands. I asked about this just a day or two ago and Eric from Valve replied with the info. -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
Re: New Beta Counter-Strike Server and HLTV
Erik, if your taking suggestions grin then how about:
- Different color of text for HLTV spectator chat (it gets confusing,
even with the 's around spectator names. I suggest bright yellow).
- Persistant Connection option so it will continuously try to reconnect
to a server if it gets dumped (or kicked by a bunch of admin mod abusing
llama's!).
- Allow cvar storage in the HLTV server so it can authenticate with
programs like Admin Mod.
- List names of the other spectators as well with the 'status' command.
- Ban functionality of some sort for HLTV server.
I think that would make me happy. If you dont I may have to boycott
you! ROFL!
-Ken
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Eric Smith wrote:
HLTV:
- Commentator chat as centerprint.
- Remove % from names and chat text.
- Proxy handles paused games correctly (no 1 second loops).
- Proxy broadcasts now password protectable (clientpassword).
- Fixed recording demos on proxy after first changelevel.
- Fixed 2 printf issues (in logfile and commentator name).
- Added client command 'joingame'. Feature must be enabled on proxy with
'allowJoinGame 1'.
- Added client command 'status'. shows game server IP, number of spectators
and an info text (set in proxy console with 'infotext my hltv info text')
- Added command line parameter '-ip' to specify the in_address for
multihomed proxies
- Fixed 'Local IP' was shown as 127.0.0.1 bug
- Fixed 'Host_Error:UserMsg:Not Present On Client 76' bug. ('connection
attempt failed')
- Fixed wrong TE_TEXTMESSAGE parsing for svc_temp_entity, caused crashs with
AdminMod etc.
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RE: New Beta Counter-Strike Server and HLTV
omg! See how easily they bend to your will when you threaten to boycott! It works! :-) I guess I shouldnt cheer until I see the suggestions implemented, but anyway... Recently I've had problems during map changes where my admin mod authentication info gets dropped. I have to re-execute the authentication cfg file then reconnect to the server. Is this a client problem of nuking the cvars between maps, or is this a server-side Admin mod issue? It used to work perfectly. -Ken On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Eric Smith wrote: I'll make sure your suggestions are added to our Requested Features list for HLTV. Thanks. -Eric -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
HLTV Support Site
Has anyone undertaken an effort to provide a site with all the HLTV FAQ's, a forum for HLTV discussion, and a repository for utilities and custom map overview files? I proclaim myself as HLTV's biggest fan here and now! If nothing else, an FTP site for the overview files would be a great asset to the HLTV community. I am willing to provide all of the above unless someone else has already started this project, in which case I would be delighted to assist. -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
Re: HLTV Help (was: RE: hltv kicked by punkbuster)
I believe I read that sv_proxies controls this behavior. 0 allows none, 1 allows 1, and anything above 1 is untested. IIRC... On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Nathan Woodcock wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 12:18:47PM -0700, Eric Smith wrote: Did you see the HLTV-ReadMe.txt file that came with the update? Why on earth is it set up so anybody can connect their HLTV proxy to a public server, taking up available slot(s)? Surely some kind of auth mechanism could have been put on the server? -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
Re: HLTV Question
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Lee Latham wrote: How much bandwidth does HLTV require? From what I've seen by watching net_graph, it uses about 1.2Kb down/1Kb up for each directly connect client. Of course, if you had 10 or even 100 clients using the multicast stream your server should not source more than that. I have limited my clients to 6 (default is 128) so I should probably not see more than 8Kb in either direction of additional bandwidth use. I limit my clients because I dont have multicast enabled, even if I did, there arent enough customers at my ISP who would really use it. From what I've been told, it would be rare for multicast streams to make it past your upstream provider. Multicast is really only going to work for gamers who are directly connected to the same network the proxy is connected to. To expand the viewer area you need to connect proxies to the Master proxy and have them stream multicast to their own multicast enabled networks. Lee Latham http://www.theville.org -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
Re: PB HLTV Support
Thanks Tony! It's working fine for me! -Ken On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Tony wrote: PunkBuster has support to not kick the HLTV proxy - it is currently undocumented support. To allow HLTV to coexist with PB, get your HLTV proxy working and then type status in your HLDS console to see what the Player Name of the proxy is on your system ... for purposes of this example, I'll assume it is Proxy. Now, in your PB config file (default pbsvhl.cfg), add the following line: ProxyName proxy This will cause the PB server to not kick any player named proxy as long as that player never has any frags. I wish there was a better way to do it, but for now, that should work. -Tony www.punkbuster.com -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
was it good for you?
Can anyone comment on their experience with upgrading their client using the ShreveNet mirror now that the load has hit? Our T3's arent pegged and our FTP server, though full, is not under severe load. Was it quick? Did it stall? Just wondering if it's safe and logical to increase our allowed FTP sessions. -- Ken Kirchner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistant System Administrator : Tel (318)222-2638 ShreveNet, Inc. : Fax (318)213-2650 ShreveNet - Your Premium Internet Service Provider!
