Ok I'm going to explain a couple things here so that you don't have to do the research to understand the bulk of whats been said. When linux starts up it fires through a given set up init scripts and runlevels. The runlevels are for your protection so us them. When starting up inittab is rather your master controller of the other init script in the "/etc/rc.d" directory.
As William pointed out the there's also a "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" file which fires off after all of the other init scripts. That would be the easiest place to link hlds in the init process. The "screen" command is a way of threading background consoles. It's handy if you're accessing via ssh to start the app and be able to directly access the console. I however pipe the output to a secondary log file.
You should follow the other guidelines here: http://server.counter-strike.net/server.php?cmd=howto&show=linux
From a good sysadmin point of view, always run secondary services/daemons as a limited access/non-root user.
Hope that helps.
thanks, -pat aka monkey13 hostage-down.net
William Warren wrote:
no need for a script per se. that is one way. Another is by using screen. I use this argument to launch my cs server inside screen(including the quotation marks):
sudo -u hlds sh -c "cd /servers/hlds;screen -A -m -d -S hlds ./hlds_run -game cstrike -debug +port 27015 +maxplayers 11 -autoupdate +map cs_tiki -steamuser <my username> +ip 192.168.0.201 -steampass <my password>"
place this argument inside your /etc/rc/d/rc.l.ocal file. It will autostart at every boot as the user hlds(which must be created).
Ben H. wrote:
Thanks Pat but my head is spinning lol. :) i am very new to the linux world and havnt down scripting. Not to be a pain or anything but could i get a little more detailed description of what i have to do, speficically what the cs script is that i need. I am running CS 1.6 on Fedora. Thank you very much
ben H
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