Re: [hlds_linux] What files/folders, if any, are safe to symlink?

2011-08-16 Thread Jacques
I have the same question but in a different (maybe wrong setup) I made a user games games has a dir HLDS and a dir Public_html in HLDS I made 2 dirs, TF1 and TF2 in both dirs I installed the orangebox files and I start each server from its own dir E.G. games/hlds/TF1/Orangebox and the other

[hlds_linux] What files/folders, if any, are safe to symlink?

2011-08-05 Thread Peter Reinhold
Hi all, Just wondering if it is safe to symlink datafiles across multiple TF2 servers, so I only have to update a single instance, instead of many? Anyone have any experience on this, maybe even a small shellscript to do it? /Peter ___ To

Re: [hlds_linux] What files/folders, if any, are safe to symlink?

2011-08-05 Thread Dan Offord
You could set +servercfgfile on your command line. This way, you would only need to use 1 install of tf2 and multiple servers. Regards, Dan On 5 August 2011 14:15, Peter Reinhold peter_va...@reinhold.dk wrote: Hi all, Just wondering if it is safe to symlink datafiles across multiple TF2

Re: [hlds_linux] What files/folders, if any, are safe to symlink?

2011-08-05 Thread Claudio Beretta
depending on how much you are going to mod the servers, you can even run multiple servers from the same path there are several convars you can set to specify files and dirs different from the default (IE: motdfile motd27025.txt) write cvarlist and search for file dir path to find all of them If

Re: [hlds_linux] What files/folders, if any, are safe to symlink?

2011-08-05 Thread Ulrich Block
Untested code: #!/bin/bash # enter the maindir MASTERSERVER='/absolute/path/tfmain' # enter the targetdir SERVERDIR='/absolute/path/tf1' EXCLUDE='valve\|overviews/\|scripts/\|media/\|particles/\|gameinfo.txt\|steam.inf\|/sound/\|steam_appid.txt\|/hl2/\|/overviews/\|/resource/\|/sprites/' cd

Re: [hlds_linux] What files/folders, if any, are safe to symlink?

2011-08-05 Thread Eric Riemers
If you run multiple servers with the same addons, you can all symlink it to the same file in /shared/plugins for instance. On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:25:47 +0200, Claudio Beretta beretta.clau...@gmail.com wrote: depending on how much you are going to mod the servers, you can even run multiple

Re: [hlds_linux] What files/folders, if any, are safe to symlink?

2011-08-05 Thread J M
I wrote up a little post a while back about how to do this with separate metamod and sourcemod installs, but a single srcds install. Could be useful. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1675140 On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Eric Riemers riem...@binkey.nl wrote: If you run

Re: [hlds_linux] What files/folders, if any, are safe to symlink?

2011-08-05 Thread Ulrich Block
I forgot to add following behind done: cp -sr $MASTERSERVER/* $SERVERDIR Also SERVERDIR needs to be replaced by $SERVERDIR after the second find command. Am 05.08.2011 15:39, schrieb Ulrich Block: Untested code: #!/bin/bash # enter the maindir MASTERSERVER='/absolute/path/tfmain' # enter

Re: [hlds_linux] What files/folders, if any, are safe to symlink?

2011-08-05 Thread John Schoenick
For the record, I run all my servers off of a single install without issue - you can change the relevant configs (mapcyclecfg, etc) with cvars, and nemrun allows you to have autoupdate even with multiple servers per install. - Neph On 08/05/2011 08:15 AM, Peter Reinhold wrote: Hi all, Just