Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead 2 Update Released

2010-02-20 Thread -xL-Trinidad
that doesnt work for me. They are still overwritten. - Original Message - From: Michael Krasnow To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 3:16 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead 2 Update Released or making them read only On Fri,

Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead 2 Update Released

2010-02-20 Thread Shane Arnold
It's easier to use the motdfile and hostfile commands in your server.cfg It will save you a lot of heartache, and gives you better control over your servers anyway. On 20/02/2010 4:23 PM, -xL-Trinidad wrote: that doesnt work for me. They are still overwritten. - Original Message -

Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions

2010-02-20 Thread Kris Byer
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Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions

2010-02-20 Thread Derek Denholm
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Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions

2010-02-20 Thread Derek Denholm
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Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead 2 Update Released

2010-02-20 Thread -xL-Trinidad
have that allready, wanted just to mention that writeprotecting does not work since the update runs propably with admin rights and can overwrite the files anyway. - Original Message - From: Shane Arnold To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Sent: Saturday, February

Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead 2 Update Released

2010-02-20 Thread Shane Arnold
The update runs with rights of the user that invoked the script. So, you could just give the file group read permissions, and deny the owner any rights at all, that way the script won't be able to overwrite that file. On 20/02/2010 9:26 PM, -xL-Trinidad wrote: have that allready, wanted just

Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead 2 Update Released

2010-02-20 Thread Shane Arnold
Sorry, just realised again that I'm on the Windows list. The same principle should apply however. On 20/02/2010 9:45 PM, Shane Arnold wrote: The update runs with rights of the user that invoked the script. So, you could just give the file group read permissions, and deny the owner any rights

Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions

2010-02-20 Thread Alec Sanger
I've been with gameservers, artofwarcentral, and leetservers. I've gotta say that Bobby from leetservers is the best I've ever worked with. Some of my biggest issues in the past were performance, and I've never had a single performance issue with leet. It seems to be a small team working over

Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions

2010-02-20 Thread Violent Crimes
*xfactorservers.com * They were a good hosting I used them before they seem to have good tech support hardly any downtime. Derek one of the owners is always around and willing to help. He still helps me know whenever I have issues with something on TCAdmin and I don't even colo or rent servers

Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions

2010-02-20 Thread Dominic Marciano
Hypernia, Never had any Problems. though my server has only been up for 4-5 months. Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:01:15 -0500 From: violentcri...@convictgaming.com To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions *xfactorservers.com * They were a good hosting I

Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions

2010-02-20 Thread Cc2iscooL
Alex, Many times with dedicated servers smaller providers just resell dedicated services for higher cost and are just the middleman, and offer no actual support because they cannot afford the hardware they're selling you, and thus are just reselling from an actual dedicated provider (sounds like

Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions

2010-02-20 Thread Alec Sanger
We ordered 2x dual dual-core xeon @ 3.2 (Can't remember the core) boxes from them. Can't remember the cost off hand. After our experience with them we decided to purchase our own physical hardware and colocate ourselves, so all we were paying for was rack space and bandwidth. In the end, our

Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions

2010-02-20 Thread John
Violent Crimes, I think NFO lost all their good techs Main one started ultimategameserver.com as I remember an issue I had with them with a server I had purchased for some reason their hosting routed me to Washington State then back to Chicago from Michigan and they told me that wasn't a big

Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions

2010-02-20 Thread Violent Crimes
I might be off on the Tech leaving pretty sure it was NFO, but I am 100% sure about the routing issue I remember that part. Been with alot of bad companies I can remember why I left each one. I agree with him though I would test out each company and see how well they treat you. Everyone has

Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions

2010-02-20 Thread JäKë Rawr
Yes I have to agree on testing a few places out and see how they really are, I once rented a few cs servers from counter-strike.com and it ran pretty good for the most part when we decided to go with a dedicated server that they started to offer we thought it would be a good time to let our

Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions

2010-02-20 Thread Cc2iscooL
Sounds like all but #2 support ticket would be useless in most any other host. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Matt Stanton inflatablesoulm...@brothersofchaos.com wrote: Wouldn't that also mean that metamod plugins would require support tickets? What if you need to add DFENS? On

Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions

2010-02-20 Thread Shane Arnold
Sounds to me like a good way of doing business. That way the GSP doesn't have to fuck around because some douchebag customer broke their own server. On 21/02/2010 12:24 PM, Cc2iscooL wrote: Sounds like all but #2 support ticket would be useless in most any other host. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at

Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions

2010-02-20 Thread Lane Eckley
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Re: [hlds] GSP Hosting Questions

2010-02-20 Thread Josh Bost
@Nicholas: Yes. That is correct, as Lane mentioned however there are common items available in 'one-click' format (In the case of L4D2 last time I checked it was several versions of MM+SM, SDK Hooks, and a few others). It makes sense for me, given that if they didn't prevent it not only are the