Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
When you get up this morning (I finally did, how can it be so late?) be sure to tell us what you did to fix it, what kept it from working. This way future generations can benefit from your experiences. Getting a half-life server running can be intimidating if you have never done it, and sometimes it takes just one simple thing to keep it from working. Us old timers take all this for granted, but there are young pups out there that have never done this before that might want to take a shot at it. On 10/13/2012 10:51 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Thanks all. Think I finally got it working! I think I even got my web server to act as a fast map downloader too! Cheers again. Must sleep now Check it out if you can spare the time. Should show up as BanzaiBobs Half-Life Server IP Address: 91.235.58.128:27015 From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ook Sent: 14 October 2012 03:50 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve Have you configured your server.cfg and autoexec.cfg and mapcycle.txt? You have to at least specify a starting map, or no one will be able to connect. Seriously, don't waste your time with the gui. Just start it -console hlds.exe -game valve -map subtransit -port 27015 On 10/13/2012 07:47 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Sorry, should have mentioned that I did try that. It ran without error, but could not be connected to. Thanks everyone, I think I will give this up as a lost cause now. Thanks for trying to help me out though. Regards, Paul From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Claudio Beretta Sent: 14 October 2012 03:41 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve take his suggestion, and launch the server from the command line On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ookooksser...@zootal.comwrote: I strongly recommend using -console flag when starting the server and dispensing with the worthless gui. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Paul Williams p...@pencoedfarm.co.uk wrote: I have done HldsUpdateTool.exe -command update -game valve -dir . more than once. Valve folder exists. Think I am gonna give up soon. Doing my head in this. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
Hi there. Yes, sorry was too tired to bother earlier. ZZzzz. (Aside: I am still having trouble with mapcycle.txt seemingly being ignored, but will look into that later. I took out all the standard maps and have just one custom one. However it still seems to end up back on the standard maps!?) Anyway, with regards to the problems you folks helped me with yesterday: The upshot was, as suggested by many, I should NOT use the GUI!! I know, I was told, but I am a Windows man! The GUI told me how many players, CPU use etc... Sigh What really threw me was that it (Half-Life) was just simply missing from the GUI options. That combined with the 'fail to start' of the command line server (without start-up map!) made me think that there was some corruption in my Valve directory somewhere. Also being a noob, I did not realize I had to have the 'map whatever' entry in server.cfg. I assumed it would just automatically use mapcycle.txt and start at the beginning. I am currently using a batch file to start the server. It just contains: S:\HLServer\hlds.exe -console -game valve. I read somewhere it can be run as a Windows service? I am not really keen on having an 'oops-I-closed-it' server window that at a glance looks like a command window. May look into writing a Windows Service wrapper for it in VB.NET. Once I had got the server up and running I spent an age trying to get 'sv_downloadurl' to work, in order to have custom maps etc. download at a decent speed. It turns out Microsoft IIS gives a 404 error for file types which are not in its known MIME type list. In the end I just added a new MIME type with: Extension '*' - type 'application/octet-stream'. Took me a while to realize this issue was IIS, I just assumed I had done something wrong in the HLDS server config. I think at some point I also had a missing trailing / on the url in the server.cfg file. This MAY have also stopped it working. Hard to remember with so many 'edit-try-edit-try' recursions! Then, before I could leave it and go to bed, I just had to fiddle a bit more. Here is the final server.cfg I ended up with. Any comments welcome :) (Q. There was an RCON password setting in the GUI. Am I supposed to have this set in the server.cfg now instead?) //BEGIN sv_aim 0 sv_clienttrace 3.5 pausable 0 sv_maxspeed 320 exec listip.cfg exec banned.cfg maxplayers 32 ip 91.235.58.128 map ag_crossfirexM sv_cheats 0 hostname BanzaiBob's Half-Life Server net_maxfilesize 9 sv_allowupload 1 sv_allowdownload 1 sv_downloadurl http://www.pencoedfarm.co.uk/hlserver/valve/; sys_ticrate 800 sv_contact banzai...@live.co.uk sv_maxrate 0 sv_region 3 hpk_maxsize 0 sv_send_logos 1 sv_filetransfercompression 1 sv_send_resources 1 //END Cheers folks! From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ook Sent: 14 October 2012 16:31 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve When you get up this morning (I finally did, how can it be so late?) be sure to tell us what you did to fix it, what kept it from working. This way future generations can benefit from your experiences. Getting a half-life server running can be intimidating if you have never done it, and sometimes it takes just one simple thing to keep it from working. Us old timers take all this for granted, but there are young pups out there that have never done this before that might want to take a shot at it. On 10/13/2012 10:51 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Thanks all. Think I finally got it working! I think I even got my web server to act as a fast map downloader too! Cheers again. Must sleep now... Check it out if you can spare the time. Should show up as BanzaiBob's Half-Life Server IP Address: 91.235.58.128:27015 From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.commailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ook Sent: 14 October 2012 03:50 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve Have you configured your server.cfg and autoexec.cfg and mapcycle.txt? You have to at least specify a starting map, or no one will be able to connect. Seriously, don't waste your time with the gui. Just start it -console hlds.exe -game valve -map subtransit -port 27015 On 10/13/2012 07:47 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Sorry, should have mentioned that I did try that. It ran without error, but could not be connected to. Thanks everyone, I think I will give this up as a lost cause now. Thanks for trying to help me out though. Regards, Paul From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.commailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Claudio Beretta Sent: 14 October 2012 03:41 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve take his suggestion, and launch the server from the command line On Sat, Oct 13
Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
FYI have just changed the batch file (read an article) to run the server at high priority. It how contains: start /high S:\HLServer\hlds.exe -console -game valve :) From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ook Sent: 14 October 2012 16:31 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve When you get up this morning (I finally did, how can it be so late?) be sure to tell us what you did to fix it, what kept it from working. This way future generations can benefit from your experiences. Getting a half-life server running can be intimidating if you have never done it, and sometimes it takes just one simple thing to keep it from working. Us old timers take all this for granted, but there are young pups out there that have never done this before that might want to take a shot at it. On 10/13/2012 10:51 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Thanks all. Think I finally got it working! I think I even got my web server to act as a fast map downloader too! Cheers again. Must sleep now... Check it out if you can spare the time. Should show up as BanzaiBob's Half-Life Server IP Address: 91.235.58.128:27015 From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.commailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ook Sent: 14 October 2012 03:50 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve Have you configured your server.cfg and autoexec.cfg and mapcycle.txt? You have to at least specify a starting map, or no one will be able to connect. Seriously, don't waste your time with the gui. Just start it -console hlds.exe -game valve -map subtransit -port 27015 On 10/13/2012 07:47 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Sorry, should have mentioned that I did try that. It ran without error, but could not be connected to. Thanks everyone, I think I will give this up as a lost cause now. Thanks for trying to help me out though. Regards, Paul From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.commailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Claudio Beretta Sent: 14 October 2012 03:41 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve take his suggestion, and launch the server from the command line On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ook ooksser...@zootal.commailto:ooksser...@zootal.com wrote: I strongly recommend using -console flag when starting the server and dispensing with the worthless gui. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Paul Williams p...@pencoedfarm.co.ukmailto:p...@pencoedfarm.co.uk wrote: [cid:image001.png@01CDAA2E.CD652D70] I have done 'HldsUpdateTool.exe -command update -game valve -dir .' more than once. Valve folder exists. Think I am gonna give up soon. Doing my head in this. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds inline: image001.png___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
Add +map de_whatever to the command and the custom map will load and therefore, start your mapcycle. On 10/14/2012 12:07 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Hi there. Yes, sorry was too tired to bother earlier. ZZzzz. (Aside: I am still having trouble with mapcycle.txt seemingly being ignored, but will look into that later. I took out all the standard maps and have just one custom one. However it still seems to end up back on the standard maps!?) Anyway, with regards to the problems you folks helped me with yesterday: The upshot was, as suggested by many, I should NOT use the GUI!! I know, I was told, but I am a Windows man! The GUI told me how many players, CPU use etc... Sigh What really threw me was that it (Half-Life) was just simply missing from the GUI options. That combined with the 'fail to start' of the command line server (without start-up map!) made me think that there was some corruption in my Valve directory somewhere. Also being a noob, I did not realize I had to have the 'map whatever' entry in server.cfg. I assumed it would just automatically use mapcycle.txt and start at the beginning. I am currently using a batch file to start the server. It just contains: S:\HLServer\hlds.exe -console -game valve. I read somewhere it can be run as a Windows service? I am not really keen on having an 'oops-I-closed-it' server window that at a glance looks like a command window. May look into writing a Windows Service wrapper for it in VB.NET. Once I had got the server up and running I spent an age trying to get 'sv_downloadurl' to work, in order to have custom maps etc. download at a decent speed. It turns out Microsoft IIS gives a 404 error for file types which are not in its known MIME type list. In the end I just added a new MIME type with: Extension '*' - type 'application/octet-stream'. Took me a while to realize this issue was IIS, I just assumed I had done something wrong in the HLDS server config. I think at some point I also had a missing trailing / on the url in the server.cfg file. This MAY have also stopped it working. Hard to remember with so many 'edit-try-edit-try' recursions! Then, before I could leave it and go to bed, I just had to fiddle a bit more. Here is the final server.cfg I ended up with. Any comments welcome J (Q. There was an RCON password setting in the GUI. Am I supposed to have this set in the server.cfg now instead?) //BEGIN sv_aim 0 sv_clienttrace 3.5 pausable 0 sv_maxspeed 320 exec listip.cfg exec banned.cfg maxplayers 32 ip 91.235.58.128 map ag_crossfirexM sv_cheats 0 hostname BanzaiBob's Half-Life Server net_maxfilesize 9 sv_allowupload 1 sv_allowdownload 1 sv_downloadurl http://www.pencoedfarm.co.uk/hlserver/valve/; sys_ticrate 800 sv_contact banzai...@live.co.uk sv_maxrate 0 sv_region 3 hpk_maxsize 0 sv_send_logos 1 sv_filetransfercompression 1 sv_send_resources 1 //END Cheers folks! ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
Ta, will give it a try. Is this different than the 'map de_whatever' setting I currently have in server.cfg? The reason I ask is that the latter starts the specified map automatically, but as mentioned the cycle seems awry. From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of RSS List User Sent: 14 October 2012 17:12 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve Add +map de_whatever to the command and the custom map will load and therefore, start your mapcycle. On 10/14/2012 12:07 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Hi there. Yes, sorry was too tired to bother earlier. ZZzzz. (Aside: I am still having trouble with mapcycle.txt seemingly being ignored, but will look into that later. I took out all the standard maps and have just one custom one. However it still seems to end up back on the standard maps!?) Anyway, with regards to the problems you folks helped me with yesterday: The upshot was, as suggested by many, I should NOT use the GUI!! I know, I was told, but I am a Windows man! The GUI told me how many players, CPU use etc... Sigh What really threw me was that it (Half-Life) was just simply missing from the GUI options. That combined with the 'fail to start' of the command line server (without start-up map!) made me think that there was some corruption in my Valve directory somewhere. Also being a noob, I did not realize I had to have the 'map whatever' entry in server.cfg. I assumed it would just automatically use mapcycle.txt and start at the beginning. I am currently using a batch file to start the server. It just contains: S:\HLServer\hlds.exe -console -game valve. I read somewhere it can be run as a Windows service? I am not really keen on having an 'oops-I-closed-it' server window that at a glance looks like a command window. May look into writing a Windows Service wrapper for it in VB.NET. Once I had got the server up and running I spent an age trying to get 'sv_downloadurl' to work, in order to have custom maps etc. download at a decent speed. It turns out Microsoft IIS gives a 404 error for file types which are not in its known MIME type list. In the end I just added a new MIME type with: Extension '*' - type 'application/octet-stream'. Took me a while to realize this issue was IIS, I just assumed I had done something wrong in the HLDS server config. I think at some point I also had a missing trailing / on the url in the server.cfg file. This MAY have also stopped it working. Hard to remember with so many 'edit-try-edit-try' recursions! Then, before I could leave it and go to bed, I just had to fiddle a bit more. Here is the final server.cfg I ended up with. Any comments welcome :) (Q. There was an RCON password setting in the GUI. Am I supposed to have this set in the server.cfg now instead?) //BEGIN sv_aim 0 sv_clienttrace 3.5 pausable 0 sv_maxspeed 320 exec listip.cfg exec banned.cfg maxplayers 32 ip 91.235.58.128 map ag_crossfirexM sv_cheats 0 hostname BanzaiBob's Half-Life Server net_maxfilesize 9 sv_allowupload 1 sv_allowdownload 1 sv_downloadurl http://www.pencoedfarm.co.uk/hlserver/valve/;http://www.pencoedfarm.co.uk/hlserver/valve/ sys_ticrate 800 sv_contact banzai...@live.co.ukmailto:banzai...@live.co.uk sv_maxrate 0 sv_region 3 hpk_maxsize 0 sv_send_logos 1 sv_filetransfercompression 1 sv_send_resources 1 //END Cheers folks! ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
BTW. Did you guys know there is a web site blogging all these messages INCLUDING our e-mail address ( as user at domain)? I have changed my settings now so that my email address should not be included in these messages. See: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/43034 From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ook Sent: 14 October 2012 16:31 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve When you get up this morning (I finally did, how can it be so late?) be sure to tell us what you did to fix it, what kept it from working. This way future generations can benefit from your experiences. Getting a half-life server running can be intimidating if you have never done it, and sometimes it takes just one simple thing to keep it from working. Us old timers take all this for granted, but there are young pups out there that have never done this before that might want to take a shot at it. On 10/13/2012 10:51 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Thanks all. Think I finally got it working! I think I even got my web server to act as a fast map downloader too! Cheers again. Must sleep now... Check it out if you can spare the time. Should show up as BanzaiBob's Half-Life Server IP Address: 91.235.58.128:27015 From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.commailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ook Sent: 14 October 2012 03:50 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve Have you configured your server.cfg and autoexec.cfg and mapcycle.txt? You have to at least specify a starting map, or no one will be able to connect. Seriously, don't waste your time with the gui. Just start it -console hlds.exe -game valve -map subtransit -port 27015 On 10/13/2012 07:47 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Sorry, should have mentioned that I did try that. It ran without error, but could not be connected to. Thanks everyone, I think I will give this up as a lost cause now. Thanks for trying to help me out though. Regards, Paul From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.commailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Claudio Beretta Sent: 14 October 2012 03:41 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve take his suggestion, and launch the server from the command line On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ook ooksser...@zootal.commailto:ooksser...@zootal.com wrote: I strongly recommend using -console flag when starting the server and dispensing with the worthless gui. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Paul Williams p...@pencoedfarm.co.ukmailto:p...@pencoedfarm.co.uk wrote: [cid:image001.png@01CDAA2F.F5C22A60] I have done 'HldsUpdateTool.exe -command update -game valve -dir .' more than once. Valve folder exists. Think I am gonna give up soon. Doing my head in this. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds inline: image001.png___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
Wow, there's really a website out there rehosting as popular a mailing list as this one? I think that's one of like, 40 that do it. Makes searching old threads so much easier, too! And no, you're not going to stop your e-mail address from being shown either. On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Paul Williams p...@pencoedfarm.co.ukwrote: BTW. Did you guys know there is a web site blogging all these messages INCLUDING our e-mail address ( as user at domain)? I have changed my settings now so that my email address should not be included in these messages. ** ** See: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/43034 ** ** ** ** *From:* hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] *On Behalf Of *Ook *Sent:* 14 October 2012 16:31 *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list *Subject:* Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve ** ** When you get up this morning (I finally did, how can it be so late?) be sure to tell us what you did to fix it, what kept it from working. This way future generations can benefit from your experiences. Getting a half-life server running can be intimidating if you have never done it, and sometimes it takes just one simple thing to keep it from working. Us old timers take all this for granted, but there are young pups out there that have never done this before that might want to take a shot at it. On 10/13/2012 10:51 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Thanks all. Think I finally got it working! I think I even got my web server to act as a fast map downloader too! Cheers again. Must sleep now… Check it out if you can spare the time. Should show up as “BanzaiBob’s Half-Life Server” IP Address: 91.235.58.128:27015 *From:* hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [ mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.comhlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] *On Behalf Of *Ook *Sent:* 14 October 2012 03:50 *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list *Subject:* Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve Have you configured your server.cfg and autoexec.cfg and mapcycle.txt? You have to at least specify a starting map, or no one will be able to connect. Seriously, don't waste your time with the gui. Just start it -console hlds.exe -game valve -map subtransit -port 27015 On 10/13/2012 07:47 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Sorry, should have mentioned that I did try that. It ran without error, but could not be connected to. Thanks everyone, I think I will give this up as a lost cause now. Thanks for trying to help me out though. Regards, Paul *From:* hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [ mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.comhlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] *On Behalf Of *Claudio Beretta *Sent:* 14 October 2012 03:41 *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list *Subject:* Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve take his suggestion, and launch the server from the command line On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ook ooksser...@zootal.com wrote: I strongly recommend using -console flag when starting the server and dispensing with the worthless gui. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Paul Williams p...@pencoedfarm.co.uk wrote: I have done ‘HldsUpdateTool.exe -command update -game valve -dir .’ more than once. Valve folder exists. Think I am gonna give up soon. Doing my head in this. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ** ** ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds image001.png___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
Witt? Smart A$$ From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Eli Witt Sent: 14 October 2012 17:24 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve Wow, there's really a website out there rehosting as popular a mailing list as this one? I think that's one of like, 40 that do it. Makes searching old threads so much easier, too! And no, you're not going to stop your e-mail address from being shown either. On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Paul Williams p...@pencoedfarm.co.ukmailto:p...@pencoedfarm.co.uk wrote: BTW. Did you guys know there is a web site blogging all these messages INCLUDING our e-mail address ( as user at domain)? I have changed my settings now so that my email address should not be included in these messages. See: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/43034 From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.commailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.commailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ook Sent: 14 October 2012 16:31 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve When you get up this morning (I finally did, how can it be so late?) be sure to tell us what you did to fix it, what kept it from working. This way future generations can benefit from your experiences. Getting a half-life server running can be intimidating if you have never done it, and sometimes it takes just one simple thing to keep it from working. Us old timers take all this for granted, but there are young pups out there that have never done this before that might want to take a shot at it. On 10/13/2012 10:51 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Thanks all. Think I finally got it working! I think I even got my web server to act as a fast map downloader too! Cheers again. Must sleep now... Check it out if you can spare the time. Should show up as BanzaiBob's Half-Life Server IP Address: 91.235.58.128tel:91.235.58.128:27015 From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.commailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ook Sent: 14 October 2012 03:50 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve Have you configured your server.cfg and autoexec.cfg and mapcycle.txt? You have to at least specify a starting map, or no one will be able to connect. Seriously, don't waste your time with the gui. Just start it -console hlds.exe -game valve -map subtransit -port 27015 On 10/13/2012 07:47 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Sorry, should have mentioned that I did try that. It ran without error, but could not be connected to. Thanks everyone, I think I will give this up as a lost cause now. Thanks for trying to help me out though. Regards, Paul From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.commailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Claudio Beretta Sent: 14 October 2012 03:41 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve take his suggestion, and launch the server from the command line On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ook ooksser...@zootal.commailto:ooksser...@zootal.com wrote: I strongly recommend using -console flag when starting the server and dispensing with the worthless gui. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Paul Williams p...@pencoedfarm.co.ukmailto:p...@pencoedfarm.co.uk wrote: [cid:image001.png@01CDAA31.63915240] I have done 'HldsUpdateTool.exe -command update -game valve -dir .' more than once. Valve folder exists. Think I am gonna give up soon. Doing my head in this. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds inline: image001.png___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
Go to serverdoc.com and get serverdoc. Do it today. It restarts your sever when it crashes, and works wonderfully. I wish there was a linux equivalent. If you start the server without a map specified, it will start and then just sit there and do nothing until you tell it which map to use. I put my startup map in server.cfg In mapcycle.txt, do NOT include .bsp in the map names. The server will ignore such entries. Just list the name of the map, without the .bsp extension. A good I use a linux server running apache for sv_downloadurl. I gave up on IIS a long time ago. My sv_downloadurl entry looks like this: sv_downloadurl http://my host/ookssteamingpileofcrap/gearbox It works fine, I've had it up for a long time like this. On 10/14/2012 09:10 AM, Paul Williams wrote: FYI have just changed the batch file (read an article) to run the server at high priority. It how contains: start /high S:\HLServer\hlds.exe -console -game valve J *From:*hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] *On Behalf Of *Ook *Sent:* 14 October 2012 16:31 *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list *Subject:* Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve When you get up this morning (I finally did, how can it be so late?) be sure to tell us what you did to fix it, what kept it from working. This way future generations can benefit from your experiences. Getting a half-life server running can be intimidating if you have never done it, and sometimes it takes just one simple thing to keep it from working. Us old timers take all this for granted, but there are young pups out there that have never done this before that might want to take a shot at it. On 10/13/2012 10:51 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Thanks all. Think I finally got it working! I think I even got my web server to act as a fast map downloader too! Cheers again. Must sleep now... Check it out if you can spare the time. Should show up as BanzaiBob's Half-Life Server IP Address: 91.235.58.128:27015 ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
Cool. Will take a look at serverdoc. Think I will stick with IIS for the moment, now that I have it working. Don't currently have a spare PC for Linux. Also interested in having a couple of bots to keep the server from being empty. Noob again, is there a BEST mod for this or only one? Cheers again, Paul (email address changed) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:34:25 -0700 From: ooksser...@zootal.com To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve Go to serverdoc.com and get serverdoc. Do it today. It restarts your sever when it crashes, and works wonderfully. I wish there was a linux equivalent. If you start the server without a map specified, it will start and then just sit there and do nothing until you tell it which map to use. I put my startup map in server.cfg In mapcycle.txt, do NOT include .bsp in the map names. The server will ignore such entries. Just list the name of the map, without the .bsp extension. A good I use a linux server running apache for sv_downloadurl. I gave up on IIS a long time ago. My sv_downloadurl entry looks like this: sv_downloadurl http://my host/ookssteamingpileofcrap/gearbox It works fine, I've had it up for a long time like this. On 10/14/2012 09:10 AM, Paul Williams wrote: FYI have just changed the batch file (read an article) to run the server at high priority. It how contains: start /high S:\HLServer\hlds.exe -console -game valve J From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ook Sent: 14 October 2012 16:31 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve When you get up this morning (I finally did, how can it be so late?) be sure to tell us what you did to fix it, what kept it from working. This way future generations can benefit from your experiences. Getting a half-life server running can be intimidating if you have never done it, and sometimes it takes just one simple thing to keep it from working. Us old timers take all this for granted, but there are young pups out there that have never done this before that might want to take a shot at it. On 10/13/2012 10:51 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Thanks all. Think I finally got it working! I think I even got my web server to act as a fast map downloader too! Cheers again. Must sleep now… Check it out if you can spare the time. Should show up as “BanzaiBob’s Half-Life Server” IP Address: 91.235.58.128:27015 ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
[hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
[cid:image001.png@01CDA9BD.24669C70] I have done 'HldsUpdateTool.exe -command update -game valve -dir .' more than once. Valve folder exists. Think I am gonna give up soon. Doing my head in this. inline: image001.png___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
I'm not sure what the issue is? Didn't you say that if the GUI didn't suit your needs, you'd swap over to the command line? Someone already gave you the command, even. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Paul Williams p...@pencoedfarm.co.ukwrote: ** ** I have done ‘HldsUpdateTool.exe -command update -game valve -dir .’ more than once. Valve folder exists. Think I am gonna give up soon. Doing my head in this. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds image001.png___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
take his suggestion, and launch the server from the command line On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ook ooksser...@zootal.com wrote: I strongly recommend using -console flag when starting the server and dispensing with the worthless gui. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Paul Williams p...@pencoedfarm.co.ukwrote: ** ** I have done ‘HldsUpdateTool.exe -command update -game valve -dir .’ more than once. Valve folder exists. Think I am gonna give up soon. Doing my head in this. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds image001.png___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
I think you can probably take a rough guess at the issue. It is not available from the GUI and when run as recommended using –game valve, the server cannot be connected to. Cheers for your help though. g From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Sugar Sent: 14 October 2012 03:39 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve I'm not sure what the issue is? Didn't you say that if the GUI didn't suit your needs, you'd swap over to the command line? Someone already gave you the command, even. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Paul Williams p...@pencoedfarm.co.ukmailto:p...@pencoedfarm.co.uk wrote: [cid:image001.png@01CDA9BD.FB7FEB30] I have done ‘HldsUpdateTool.exe -command update -game valve -dir .’ more than once. Valve folder exists. Think I am gonna give up soon. Doing my head in this. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds inline: image001.png___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
Sorry, should have mentioned that I did try that. It ran without error, but could not be connected to. Thanks everyone, I think I will give this up as a lost cause now. Thanks for trying to help me out though. Regards, Paul From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Claudio Beretta Sent: 14 October 2012 03:41 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve take his suggestion, and launch the server from the command line On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ook ooksser...@zootal.commailto:ooksser...@zootal.com wrote: I strongly recommend using -console flag when starting the server and dispensing with the worthless gui. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Paul Williams p...@pencoedfarm.co.ukmailto:p...@pencoedfarm.co.uk wrote: [cid:image001.png@01CDA9BE.94353DD0] I have done 'HldsUpdateTool.exe -command update -game valve -dir .' more than once. Valve folder exists. Think I am gonna give up soon. Doing my head in this. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds inline: image001.png___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
Have you configured your server.cfg and autoexec.cfg and mapcycle.txt? You have to at least specify a starting map, or no one will be able to connect. Seriously, don't waste your time with the gui. Just start it -console hlds.exe -game valve -map subtransit -port 27015 On 10/13/2012 07:47 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Sorry, should have mentioned that I did try that. It ran without error, but could not be connected to. Thanks everyone, I think I will give this up as a lost cause now. Thanks for trying to help me out though. Regards, Paul From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Claudio Beretta Sent: 14 October 2012 03:41 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve take his suggestion, and launch the server from the command line On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ookooksser...@zootal.comwrote: I strongly recommend using -console flag when starting the server and dispensing with the worthless gui. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Paul Williams p...@pencoedfarm.co.uk wrote: I have done HldsUpdateTool.exe -command update -game valve -dir . more than once. Valve folder exists. Think I am gonna give up soon. Doing my head in this. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve
Thanks all. Think I finally got it working! I think I even got my web server to act as a fast map downloader too! Cheers again. Must sleep now... Check it out if you can spare the time. Should show up as BanzaiBob's Half-Life Server IP Address: 91.235.58.128:27015 From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ook Sent: 14 October 2012 03:50 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve Have you configured your server.cfg and autoexec.cfg and mapcycle.txt? You have to at least specify a starting map, or no one will be able to connect. Seriously, don't waste your time with the gui. Just start it -console hlds.exe -game valve -map subtransit -port 27015 On 10/13/2012 07:47 PM, Paul Williams wrote: Sorry, should have mentioned that I did try that. It ran without error, but could not be connected to. Thanks everyone, I think I will give this up as a lost cause now. Thanks for trying to help me out though. Regards, Paul From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.commailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Claudio Beretta Sent: 14 October 2012 03:41 To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Dah! No Half-Life / Valve take his suggestion, and launch the server from the command line On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ook ooksser...@zootal.commailto:ooksser...@zootal.com wrote: I strongly recommend using -console flag when starting the server and dispensing with the worthless gui. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Paul Williams p...@pencoedfarm.co.ukmailto:p...@pencoedfarm.co.uk wrote: [cid:image001.png@01CDA9D8.5947CC00] I have done 'HldsUpdateTool.exe -command update -game valve -dir .' more than once. Valve folder exists. Think I am gonna give up soon. Doing my head in this. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds inline: image001.png___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
