Re: [hlds_linux] MOTD randomly not working?

2012-08-27 Thread cladiron
Hopefully it's where steam is trying to filter out the animated motd's such as youtube. Some admin's don't think about how they force the client to play a video as they enter the server. They try to trick the client into pressing the stop button which then causes something else to load. If you do

Re: [hlds_linux] MOTD randomly not working?

2012-08-25 Thread Herover
I've had the same problem for some time ago. This is how my motd.txt looks now: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd; html head titlelol/title meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 meta

Re: [hlds_linux] MOTD randomly not working?

2012-08-25 Thread doc
I found that with forked TF2 servers, if you define a different motdfile then it doesn't take effect until the next mapchange. At least in my case, my MvM server is launched from the same files as my PvP server but I load different servercfgfile and motds, but the motd is default until a map

Re: [hlds_linux] MOTD randomly not working?

2012-08-25 Thread DoGz Gaming
This MOTD problem exists on CSS as well since the July 2 update. It will not display the motd on the first server you join. Once you join a second server the motd works as usual for all servers, including the first one you joined if you return. It is pretty ridiculous that we have to use the

[hlds_linux] MOTD randomly not working?

2012-08-24 Thread Steven Haigh
I've also just come across a strange one... My setup is as follows: username: tf2server home: /home/tf2server Everything is installed under ~/hlds/ I have created ~/hlds/server-1/ and ~/hlds/server-2/ I have loaded everything from steam for TF2 in ~/hlds/common/. I went through and symlinked

Re: [hlds_linux] MOTD randomly not working?

2012-08-24 Thread Anime Siege
I have also been having the same problem recently. On Aug 24, 2012 6:36 PM, Steven Haigh net...@crc.id.au wrote: I've also just come across a strange one... My setup is as follows: username: tf2server home: /home/tf2server Everything is installed under ~/hlds/ I have created