[hlds] Looking for a utility...

2010-08-31 Thread Shawn Somers
I'm in the process of building some automated scripts to help manage 
servers, and before I reinvent the wheel, I figure I'll ask other 
windows server operators...


Does anyone on this list have a windows COMMAND LINE utility for sending 
rcon commands to a server?


PLEASE, in the hope of minimizing spam replies, only reply if you DO.

Shawn



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Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source Updates Available

2010-07-09 Thread Shawn Somers
Disable source/meta mod, see if it still crashes.

We had some issues with one of our plugins causing crashes until it was 
updated.

Shawn Somers AKA ra...@freefrag.com

Tony Paloma wrote:
 How about crashes? Anybody else's server crashing like crazy? My arena
 server always seems to be crashing when it gets to the second map in cycle
 (sawmill) and my rotation server crashes on coldfront.

   


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Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Available

2010-07-01 Thread Shawn Somers
Spencer 'voogru' MacDonald wrote:
 The warning would be far more useful if it warned about impossible
 servers, such as 34/36 etc servers, because those are actually somewhat
 malicious

I'm curious as to why you think this is malicious, Care to expand?

Shawn

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Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2/Day of Defeat: Source Update

2010-04-29 Thread Shawn Somers
Only problem with that, is that it doesn't encourage m2, it just 
eliminates the penalty for using the BB.

I would have understood it if this was a drop weapon, but instead, it 
penalizes every pyro and reduces them to medics assistant to put out 
fires and a juggling clown.

Shawn


Max S wrote:
 This might be off-topic, but I love this update. Anything that discourages
 W+M1 and encourages W+M2 is great to have (and the large list of additional
 improvements doesn't hurt). Thanks, Valve!

 On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:05 AM, -xL-Trinidad
 trini...@extreme-losers.orgwrote:

   


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Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2/Day of Defeat: Source Update

2010-04-29 Thread Shawn Somers
Ahh.. Did not know that the BB was nerfed as well. Guess I'll quit 
playing pyro altogether and switch to engineer and build 4 sentries at a 
time.


Shawn

Max S wrote:
 Eliminates the penalty? It still exists. The nerf affects both weapons
 equally, and you underestimate the power of more frequent airblasts for 4/5
 of the ammo. You could compare the weapons to the scout's FaN and
 scattergun. The former is good for/against your average pubber, but the
 latter is the obvious choice at a higher level.  The Backburner is only
 useful if you can catch the enemy with his pants down, while while the
 airblast is a direct counter to huntsman snipers and the explosive classes
 (soldiers, demomen and engineers to a lesser extent). Let me fix that last
 sentence for you. ...[the update] redefines the BB as an ambush weapon
 while increasing the use of the airblast (as a counter to explosive classes
 and to encourage teamwork to a lesser extent).

   


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Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Available

2010-04-29 Thread Shawn Somers
repeatable, and insanely easy to figure out.

Shawn


1nsane wrote:
 Building exploit not fixed, just built 20 sentries + dispensers.

 Won't say how entirely, but same command, last number prefixed by something.
   


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Re: [hlds] [OT] Website builder for your server websites

2010-02-15 Thread Shawn Somers
It all depends on what you're after, realistically.

Many server communities use webforums of some type, and the majority of 
those are at least partially PHP.

if all you wants is an informational page for your servers, PHP/CSS 
Should cover the majority of what you'll need.

Shawn



Ook wrote:
 Yeah, this is slightly OT...what do you guys use to build websites for 
 your servers? I'm looking for a website builder suitable for such. Any 
 recommendations? I don't need excessive bells and whistles, but my 
 current site redefines the expression butt-ugly :)

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Re: [hlds] couldn't allocate any server IP port when specifying my public IP address

2010-02-08 Thread Shawn Somers
make sure that you have sv_lan 0 set in your server.cfg file (and have 
that file called on the command line)
do NOT use +IP in the command line, that is for machines with multiple 
public IP's.

You should be able to connect ot the machine via LAN and WAN after that.

Shawn Somers

Rich Allen wrote:
 Help!

 I'm trying to run a dedicated TF2 server from my home server.  It's a
 dedicated server, hosting my domains and my weather station.  The only
 difference between this machine and a for-pay host is that it's sittin
 ghere in my house, behind my router, just like the rest of my computers.

 I have the TF2 server set to run off of port 27016, and I have that port
 and 27020 both being forwarded to the server's IP using TCP and UDP.

 When I run srcds without the +ip option, the server starts up fine but
 it isn't visible on the server list (I have a buddy check for it from
 his house).
 When I run srcds with the +ip option, specifying my external IP address,
 I get the couldn't allocate any server IP port error message and the
 server won't start.

 What am I missing?

 Rich Allen
   


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Re: [hlds] [TF2] server reading mapcycle.txt backwards

2010-01-12 Thread Shawn Somers
Check your config for well.

Shawn

In Hyuk Seo wrote:
 We took out cp_well from the mapcycle.txt (it was the map that we put lastly
 it was perfectly fine until we put it)
 and everything became okay again... I don't know what could possibly go
 wrong..
 Thanks anyway guys.

 2010/1/11 In Hyuk Seo roadhous...@gmail.com

   



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Re: [hlds] More Hacking Groups

2009-12-17 Thread Shawn Somers
Seriously interested in how you have your filter set up. Can you share 
specifics?

Shawn

Matt Stanton wrote:
 Haha.  I'd be surprised if several of these people weren't already 
 banned from our servers already.  We put a word filter in place that 
 basically permbans people for using a certain specific group of racist 
 words from our servers automatically.  We don't ban for cursing, as our 
 community is far from G-rated, but we will absolutely not stand for this 
 racist crap that many of the dregs of the gaming community seem to be a 
 part of.  Oddly enough, when we get ban protests from people regarding 
 the use of racist terms, when we go back through the chat logs in our 
 stats database, we find that the person was being a royal douche, and 
 the ban stands.  We have only ever overturned one ban that was 
 automatically posted for this reason, and we fully research every ban 
 protest.

   

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Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Available

2009-12-17 Thread Shawn Somers
windows servers with version 122 are crashing on map change...

Shawn


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[hlds] friendship??

2009-12-09 Thread Shawn Somers

Does this mean I should be prepared for another update in the very near 
future??

Shawn

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Re: [hlds] TF2 repeatable crash exploit posted to the forums

2009-10-30 Thread Shawn Somers
Server details, please?

what map, what plugins ( plugin version?)

Shawn Somers

JäKë T wrote:
 Had this happen just now on one of my servers. 
 Crashed it with 32 players and said he would do it again but I was able to 
 ban his ass.
 Skullkrusher STEAM_0:0:17399093 00:51 83 0 active
 
 Server's running linux.
 
 
 
 Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:24:27 +1100
 From: chillic...@gmail.com
 To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com
 Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 repeatable crash exploit posted to the forums

 i cant reproduce this on windows server.

 On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Wiktor Deresz wder...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yeah, correct. It was moved. Mods and Admins can still access it.

 On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Y Smith m4ngr...@gmail.com wrote:

 It wasn't deleted, it was just moved to a non-public forum. Hence:

 username, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be
 due to one of several reasons:

   1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this
 page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative
 features or some other privileged system?
   2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your
 account, or it may be awaiting activation.


 -Original Message-
 From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com
 [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ketil A
 Sent: Friday, 30 October 2009 5:21 AM
 To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com
 Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 repeatable crash exploit posted to the forums


 You can't access it because it got deleted

 From: saul.renni...@gmail.com
 Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:17:29 +
 To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com
 Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 repeatable crash exploit posted to the forums

 Same.

 Thanks,
 - Saul.


 2009/10/29 Andre Coelho andre.du...@gmail.com

 Can you please post here teh forum content?
 I'm unable to access the forum now.

 André Coelho
 Cel. +5521 8836.7622
 DClick Web  Mobile Solutions

 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrebrait


 On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Phillip Vector 
 t...@mostdeadlygame.com
 wrote:
 I tried out what the forums said and it didn't work. It dropped a
 heavy without hands, yes. But it didn't crash the server.

 On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Shawn Somers
 shawn.som...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 The post is (as of right now) 40 minutes old. Making sure that a
 VALVe
 employee knows about it, as well as the people that actually
 operate
 the
 servers, just seems like a good idea to Me.

 Shawn Somers

 Phillip Vector wrote:
 Thank you for bringing even MORE attention to it.

 On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Shawn Somers 
 shawn.som...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 This needs fixed ASAP!



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[hlds] TF2 repeatable crash exploit posted to the forums

2009-10-29 Thread Shawn Somers
This needs fixed ASAP!

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1004137

Shawn Somers

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Re: [hlds] TF2 repeatable crash exploit posted to the forums

2009-10-29 Thread Shawn Somers
The post is (as of right now) 40 minutes old. Making sure that a VALVe 
employee knows about it, as well as the people that actually operate the 
servers, just seems like a good idea to Me.

Shawn Somers

Phillip Vector wrote:
 Thank you for bringing even MORE attention to it.
 
 On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Shawn Somers shawn.som...@gmail.com wrote:
 This needs fixed ASAP!

 http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1004137

 Shawn Somers

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Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Coming

2009-10-29 Thread Shawn Somers
Jason,

Any ETA on the update?

Shawn Somers

 On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Jason Ruymen jas...@valvesoftware.com

 wrote:
 A required update for Team Fortress 2 is on the way.  Should be live in
 a
 couple of hours.
 Jason



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Re: [hlds] Steam servers overloaded?

2009-10-28 Thread Shawn Somers
restart your update. I just ran it, and it took ~ 30 seconds.

Shawn Somers

Christoffer Pedersen wrote:
 There are currently new updates available out there. I am trying to update
 my servers right now, and I am experiencing a very slow download speed. Are
 somebody else also experiencing this?
 


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Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Dedicated Server Available

2009-10-27 Thread Shawn Somers
Anything new with the server.cfg?(ie, new cvars?)  Or can we clone/copy 
the l4d one?


Shawn Somers

   
 As you've already seen, the dedicated server files for the Left 4 Dead 2
 Demo are now available.  The game name is left4dead2_demo.  We're still
 doing some final checks for the client, but that should be going live
   
 soon.
 
 Jason


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Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Dedicated Server Available

2009-10-27 Thread Shawn Somers
Mine is up, running and hibernating.

Started with this command:

  C:\HL2DS\l4d2d\left4dead2_demo\srcds.exe -game left4dead2 -console

Shawn


Jonah Hirsch wrote:
 Invalid game type 'left4dead2' sepecified.
 
 Guess that's not it, or again, we can't boot the servers yet.
 
 ./srcds_run -game left4dead2..
 
 
 Jonah Hirsch
 ---
 Sent from Flagstaff, AZ, United States
 

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Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Coming

2009-10-14 Thread Shawn Somers
Jason Ruymen wrote:
 A required update for Team Fortress 2 is on the way.  It should be live in 
 about 30 minutes.
 
 Jason
 
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  What's in the update? Does it include a fix for the remote crash bug?

Shawn Somers

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Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Available

2009-10-14 Thread Shawn Somers
Chris wrote:
 Just me, or is hldsupdatetool completely b0rked on windows?
 

Just you. Takes a while to run right now though.

Shawn

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Re: [hlds] L4D Crash exploit?

2009-10-07 Thread Shawn Somers

If you have full access to the server, run a packet capture.

Knowing what goes to the server to cause it goes a LONG way to fixing it.

Shawn /OB

Michael Krasnow wrote:
 its not just L4D it does it in tf2 also,
 
 it happens after a few people join it happened on several maps and they were
 abrupt terminations so no log file :(
 
 if searching around to see how its done so far nothing though
 
 Mike

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Re: [hlds] L4D Crash exploit?

2009-10-06 Thread Shawn Somers
First:
What type of server? leased/Owned? remote colo? what level of access do 
you have to it?

Second: have you checked available resources on the server? When is the 
last time that the server was restarted/rebooted?

Have you checked the security on the server itself?

Check the log and see if the same user tries to connect before the 
crash, if so, drop them in the banned user list.

Also, that's not a crash, but a clean exit. if I hard kill the server 
process, the logs do NOT end that clean. OTOH, if I `quit' at the server 
console...


Shawn/OB



Ook wrote:
 I did. No change. This isn't caused by someone having hacked my password.
 
 - Original Message - 
 From: Mike O'Laughlen molaugh...@gmail.com
 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list 
 hlds@list.valvesoftware.com
 Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 4:02 PM
 Subject: Re: [hlds] L4D Crash exploit?
 
 
 You should try resetting your rcon password?

 On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Ook ooksser...@zootal.com wrote:

 Is there a L4D crash exploit going around? I'm watching my server, which
 normally runs for days without crashing, crash/restart every couple of
 minutes. The last few lines in the log file is:

 L 10/06/2009 - 15:09:49: Preventing spawning
 L 10/06/2009 - 15:09:49: server_message: quit
 L 10/06/2009 - 15:09:49: Log file closed

 This happens every couple of minutes. I don't see anything in the 
 console,
 it just quits. It started doing this about 4.5 hours ago, and it's done 
 it
 about 40 times since then. It leaves a log file of exactly 1272 bytes.


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