[hlds_linux] Users are kicked and banned on map change.for 5.00 minutes

I have a CSS linux server that I setup for a few friends to play on -- nothing fancy. It is just a stock CSS server (no mods) on an Athlon XP 2400+ with SuSE 10.0 . My problem is that often times on map change, players will get banned for 5 minutes for no apparent reason. It only seems to occur

AW: [hlds_linux] Users are kicked and banned on map change.for 5.00 minutes

Do you have hlstatsX running for your server? Do you ban autoretries?! This symptom I have watched if ppl using hlstatsx and do ban rety abuser. Usually a person who enters retry if already connected, is banned for 5min. But we noticed that sometimes it happens at mapchange too. That’s why we did

Re: AW: [hlds_linux] Users are kicked and banned on map change.for 5.00 minutes

I did not even think to look at Hlstatsx, but I do indeed have it running. There was no entry for AutoBanRetry for my server, so it was probably set to whatever the default setting is. I added this line to my server config portion of hlstats.conf: AutoBanRetry = 0 I will try