Re: [hlds_linux] Already there is a HL2 online exploit....VALVE please fix!
The only reason i posted it was to ensure that something gets done. The extent that it was easy to find was what was troublesome. I am an admin on a server - so I also wanted to make any other admins aware of any potential problems. I figure that with the brains that would be available on this mailing list, that someone would be able to come up with a useful solution. On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:04:23 +1000, Bruce Bahamut Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Kirby wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:08:19 +1030, Melissa Carley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Valve... Already there is a HL2 online exploit...someone from what I can gather can basically get a warez type release of the game and crack it so that they can play online without a valid steam id or some description like that. As a game admin - this could be an issue, especially with banning...etc... Here is a copy of the NFO regarding how to apparently do this. I have not tested this out and i do not intend for anyone else to either. I would like Valve to investigate this and patch it ASAP. [SNIP] I'm not convinced posting the workaround here is very helpful. It would have been far better to mail Alfred directly first. Now a lot more people know about the exploit. Everyone already knew about it anyway, it's been out for months. -- - Bruce Bahamut Andrews ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
Re: [hlds_linux] Already there is a HL2 online exploit....VALVE please fix!
Melissa Carley wrote: The only reason i posted it was to ensure that something gets done. The extent that it was easy to find was what was troublesome. I am an admin on a server - so I also wanted to make any other admins aware of any potential problems. I figure that with the brains that would be available on this mailing list, that someone would be able to come up with a useful solution. Yeah, that's cool. I've discovered you're better off emailing Alfred for direct answers to bugs, though with this kind of issue letting the server admins know that it exists and that IP banning is a more effective solution then steamid banning at the moment is a good idea, so thanks =) -- - Bruce Bahamut Andrews ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
Re: [hlds_linux] Best distro ?
lol @ Jeremy Jeremy Brooking wrote: William Warren wrote: CentOS 3.3 is a rebuild from source rpm of RHEL 3 AS. This makes it a 2.4.x kernel. RHEL 4 based on fedora 3 is in public beta. With the 2 seconds it took to give us this simply riviting piece of information, you could have taken 1 more and bothered to trim your post. Mike wrote: I just installed CentOS 3.3 on a box. It appears to be a good operating system, and it has many great reviews. Unfortunately, though, I'm told it does not support the 2.6 kernel. This would be a huge drawback in my opinion as the 2.6 kernel seems far superior (at least for gaming. And yes, I'm talking even when both are set to hz 1000). Is this true, that the 2.6 kernel is unsupported? I'm going to test it with the 2.4 kernel regardless, and compare it to a fedora core 3 server. Ahh such fun :) But as for my opinion in operating systems... my favorite is FreeBSD. By far, whether it be 4.10 or 5.3. Although... I'm beginning to see much difference resource statistics on 5.3 than I did in 5.2.1. (About 10-40% higher cpu usage, much lower load, better fps - beats me). - Original Message - From: William Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 7:15 AM Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Best distro ? I use a RHEL 3 AS clone, more specicifcally Centos 3.3 Rodolphe wrote: Hi, Wich distro is best for both counter-strike 1.6 and counter-strike : source ? Between Debian 3, RedHat 7.2, Fedora 1 Cobalt, Fedora 1.0, Fedora 2.0, Fedora 3.0 and Mandrake 10.0 ? Thx Rod ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux . -- My Foundation verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- Grab the tape ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux . -- My Foundation verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- Grab the tape ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
Re: [hlds_linux] Best distro ?
I used to be a freebsd but i think the 5 kernel went backwards and the 2.6 linux kernel went forwards so I have moved to the linux distro which is much like freebsd which is gentoo It is also very tweakable and performs very very well Kingsley - Original Message - From: hondaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Best distro ? lol @ Jeremy Jeremy Brooking wrote: William Warren wrote: CentOS 3.3 is a rebuild from source rpm of RHEL 3 AS. This makes it a 2.4.x kernel. RHEL 4 based on fedora 3 is in public beta. With the 2 seconds it took to give us this simply riviting piece of information, you could have taken 1 more and bothered to trim your post. Mike wrote: I just installed CentOS 3.3 on a box. It appears to be a good operating system, and it has many great reviews. Unfortunately, though, I'm told it does not support the 2.6 kernel. This would be a huge drawback in my opinion as the 2.6 kernel seems far superior (at least for gaming. And yes, I'm talking even when both are set to hz 1000). Is this true, that the 2.6 kernel is unsupported? I'm going to test it with the 2.4 kernel regardless, and compare it to a fedora core 3 server. Ahh such fun :) But as for my opinion in operating systems... my favorite is FreeBSD. By far, whether it be 4.10 or 5.3. Although... I'm beginning to see much difference resource statistics on 5.3 than I did in 5.2.1. (About 10-40% higher cpu usage, much lower load, better fps - beats me). - Original Message - From: William Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 7:15 AM Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Best distro ? I use a RHEL 3 AS clone, more specicifcally Centos 3.3 Rodolphe wrote: Hi, Wich distro is best for both counter-strike 1.6 and counter-strike : source ? Between Debian 3, RedHat 7.2, Fedora 1 Cobalt, Fedora 1.0, Fedora 2.0, Fedora 3.0 and Mandrake 10.0 ? Thx Rod ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux . -- My Foundation verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- Grab the tape ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux . -- My Foundation verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- Grab the tape ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
Re: [hlds_linux] Best distro ?
do you experience a better performance for cs 1.6 when using glibc 2.2? best regards, raoul bhatia ruwen wrote: A good admin makes every distro to the best :) I use debian stable (yes i cant start CS:S, but i dont care:)) greetings ruwen -- raoul bhatia email.[EMAIL PROTECTED] ipax web.http://www.ipax.at - chief technician, support - irc. #ipax (quakenet) ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
Re: [hlds_linux] AMD 64 or possibly glibc 2.3.2 issue with CS Source
FYI this is a glibc issue. The fedora people have implemented changes that will shutdown the executable if an invalid call to free is made. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/22501 Please view that website on how to control this behaviour. I have personally not tested this but downgraded glibc instead but it might be worth a try (and yes same behaviour happened on a 32bit system). So either: - Valve fixes those nasty free calls to invalid memory locations (I asked for this before) - You downgrade - You try to disable this behaviour by setting the environment variable to 0 Philip Andrew Forsberg wrote: Hi Mike, Unlike hlds, srcds's debug log appears to be next to useless -- it gives me a record of what I'd just typed into console, dumps a core, and tells me it aborted. Running the ./srcds_amd binary directly was more useful. That helped me track down a few obvious problems (which didn't occur at all on FC2 i386). After changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH to look in srcds/bin and srcds/cstrike/bin, and updating the PATH to look in cstrike for the chatterbox stuff, it stopped returning any errors except the original. e.g.: Console initialized. Attempted to create unknown entity type event_queue_saveload_proxy! Game .dll loaded for Counter-Strike: Source *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xf7fc9460 *** ./srcds_run: line 342: 2370 Aborted (core dumped) $HL_CMD etc... ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
[hlds_linux] (no subject)
Hi i have some strange problem with starting up steam i have other cs16 server on that some box but this one want start, update or fresh install for some reason. now i'm stuck on fresh install :( do any body have idea what can be wrong? Error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cs16]# ./steam -command update -game cstrike -username xx -password xx -verify_all Checking bootstrapper version ... Getting version 11 of Steam HLDS Update Tool CMultiFieldBlob(pSerialized): Bad field - extends past end of blob [EMAIL PROTECTED] cs16]# server spec: OS Fedora Core 2 kernel 2.6.9-13.FC2 Ram 1GB BornAgainst This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
[hlds_linux] (no subject)
Hi i have some strange problem with starting up steam i have other cs16 server on that some box but this one want start, update or fresh install for some reason. now i'm stuck on fresh install :( do any body have idea what can be wrong? Error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cs16]# ./steam -command update -game cstrike -username xx -password xx -verify_all Checking bootstrapper version ... Getting version 11 of Steam HLDS Update Tool CMultiFieldBlob(pSerialized): Bad field - extends past end of blob [EMAIL PROTECTED] cs16]# server spec: OS Fedora Core 2 kernel 2.6.9-13.FC2 Ram 1GB BornAgainst This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
Re: [hlds_linux] Already there is a HL2 online exploit....VALVE please fix!
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:02:33 +1000, Bruce Bahamut Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Melissa Carley wrote: The only reason i posted it was to ensure that something gets done. The extent that it was easy to find was what was troublesome. I am an admin on a server - so I also wanted to make any other admins aware of any potential problems. I figure that with the brains that would be available on this mailing list, that someone would be able to come up with a useful solution. Yeah, that's cool. I've discovered you're better off emailing Alfred for direct answers to bugs, though with this kind of issue letting the server admins know that it exists and that IP banning is a more effective solution then steamid banning at the moment is a good idea, so thanks =) Indeed, but when you got someone making new IDs all day and they have dynamic IP adsl.. You're pretty much helpless :( I just do a 24 hour IP ban these days for dynamics and hope they're too dumb to see what's happened. This is for CS1.6 as well :-/ ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
Re: [hlds_linux] Already there is a HL2 online exploit....VALVE please fix!
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:04:23 +1000, Bruce Bahamut Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Kirby wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:08:19 +1030, Melissa Carley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Valve... Already there is a HL2 online exploit...someone from what I can gather can basically get a warez type release of the game and crack it so that they can play online without a valid steam id or some description like that. As a game admin - this could be an issue, especially with banning...etc... Here is a copy of the NFO regarding how to apparently do this. I have not tested this out and i do not intend for anyone else to either. I would like Valve to investigate this and patch it ASAP. [SNIP] I'm not convinced posting the workaround here is very helpful. It would have been far better to mail Alfred directly first. Now a lot more people know about the exploit. Everyone already knew about it anyway, it's been out for months. Well I don't think EVERYONE knows about it.. Or else every cheater on earth would be using the infinite ID trick.. Whereas I'm still catching cheats on old ID's. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
Re: [hlds_linux] (no subject)
On 22.11.2004 at 01:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i have some strange problem with starting up steam i have other cs16 server on that some box but this one want start, update or fresh install for some reason. now i'm stuck on fresh install :( do any body have idea what can be wrong? Error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cs16]# ./steam -command update -game cstrike -username xx -password xx -verify_all Checking bootstrapper version ... Getting version 11 of Steam HLDS Update Tool CMultiFieldBlob(pSerialized): Bad field - extends past end of blob [EMAIL PROTECTED] cs16]# server spec: OS Fedora Core 2 kernel 2.6.9-13.FC2 Ram 1GB BornAgainst This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. Must be a plain stupid program, coz it sends the emails twice :) hm... delete ~/.steam and try again best regards ruwen ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
Re: WG: [hlds_linux] Problem with CSS-Server Installation on Linux
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:03:34AM +0100, LuZiFeR wrote: O.K. Resolved... After i delete my InstallRecord.blob, my old Version of CSS is ready to update. Good game :) Adrien Thx to Adrien for trying to help me... :) Best regards LuZi Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von LuZiFeR Gesendet: Sonntag, 21. November 2004 00:44 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: WG: [hlds_linux] Problem with CSS-Server Installation on Linux Hi, Now i have try to use my old CSS-Server-Installation, But now, when i try to update, the login is working, but i became the next error: No CS online with App 242 Ver 13 Never ending story ? :) Regards LuZi Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von LuZiFeR Gesendet: Sonntag, 21. November 2004 00:32 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: AW: [hlds_linux] Problem with CSS-Server Installation on Linux Hi and thx, But it doesnt work... :( Some more suggestions ? :) Regards LuZi Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Adrien Gesendet: Samstag, 20. November 2004 13:01 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [hlds_linux] Problem with CSS-Server Installation on Linux On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 02:31:45AM +0100, LuZiFeR wrote: Hi, Have try this.No luck :) Could it be, that my Username is the problem in css ? It is an e-mail adress, because the account is very old...from cs1.5 steam-beta...long ago :) Hum, I don't know but you can create another account simply : ./steam -command create -username USER -email EMAIL -password PASSWORD -question QUESTION -answer ANSWER Adrien. Regards... Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Adrien Gesendet: Samstag, 20. November 2004 01:30 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [hlds_linux] Problem with CSS-Server Installation on Linux Try these : ./steam -command update -game Counter-Strike Source -dir . -username USER -password PASSWORD -remember_password On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 01:10:39AM +0100, LuZiFeR wrote: Hi and thx, But with or without Y...It makes no difference :( Regards LuZi Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Adrien Gesendet: Samstag, 20. November 2004 00:58 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [hlds_linux] Problem with CSS-Server Installation on Linux On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 12:25:03AM +0100, LuZiFeR wrote: Hi, I've tried to install a new CSS-Server on Linux, but it won't work. The following errors accours: Login failed. This account does not exist, or the password is incorrect. But the account works fine on all my other servers. When i create a new account, the error looks like this: Connection Closed by Peer Until last week, there was running a css-beta server on this machine without problems. It's a dedicated server with no router, firewall etc. The command i've used is: ./steam -update Counter-Strike Source /home/xxx//hlds_l xxx Y I think you need to remove the Y at end of line. I have an other problem. I have a RedHat 7.2 and the server can't be loaded. ./srcds_run -console -pingboost 1 -game cstrike +map de_dust +maxplayers 32 +hostport 27015 Auto detecting CPU Using default binary. Enabling +debug mode Auto-restarting the server on crash sam nov 20 00:56:55 CET 2004: Server Quit The same configuration on a debian works fine. I have that it can be a glibc version problem. I have install the 2.2.5 but it's the same problem. Do you have an idea ? Thanks, Adrien. I've replaced the hldsupdatetool and unpack it, but no change Any suggestions ? :) Regards LuZi ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the
Re: [hlds_linux] AMD 64 or possibly glibc 2.3.2 issue with CS Source
Thank you, Philip! Thank you. export MALLOC_CHECK_=1 Let's me run the game without any further trouble. By not setting it to zero it also continues to report the memory leaks, etc. From the number of error messages it looks like the executables only *barely* work anyway. :) Cheers Andrew Philip Lorenz wrote: FYI this is a glibc issue. The fedora people have implemented changes that will shutdown the executable if an invalid call to free is made. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/22501 Please view that website on how to control this behaviour. I have personally not tested this but downgraded glibc instead but it might be worth a try (and yes same behaviour happened on a 32bit system). So either: - Valve fixes those nasty free calls to invalid memory locations (I asked for this before) - You downgrade - You try to disable this behaviour by setting the environment variable to 0 Philip ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
Re: [hlds_linux] Best distro ?
*cough* Slackware *cough* - Original Message - From: Kingsley Foreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 4:18 AM Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Best distro ? I used to be a freebsd but i think the 5 kernel went backwards and the 2.6 linux kernel went forwards so I have moved to the linux distro which is much like freebsd which is gentoo It is also very tweakable and performs very very well Kingsley ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
Re: [hlds_linux] steam start problem
id id try that and stilol nothing :( BornAganst Quoting ruwen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 22.11.2004 at 01:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i have some strange problem with starting up steam i have other cs16 server on that some box but this one want start, update or fresh install for some reason. now i'm stuck on fresh install :( do any body have idea what can be wrong? Error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cs16]# ./steam -command update -game cstrike -username xx -password xx -verify_all Checking bootstrapper version ... Getting version 11 of Steam HLDS Update Tool CMultiFieldBlob(pSerialized): Bad field - extends past end of blob [EMAIL PROTECTED] cs16]# server spec: OS Fedora Core 2 kernel 2.6.9-13.FC2 Ram 1GB BornAgainst This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. Must be a plain stupid program, coz it sends the emails twice :) hm... delete ~/.steam and try again best regards ruwen ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
[hlds_linux] LAN server weirdness
Ran a dedicated server the other night at a LAN party, and discovered a couple peculiararities. First, only servers on ports 27015-27020 would appear on the lan game browser. Is this a bug or a feature, and is there a workaround? Second, how do I make a server run on an aliased IP and have it appear in the LAN browser at the same time? ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
