Hiya there: I imagine the errors and pretty much anything else must be
a bit interesting to read using Putty, but as far as using screen:
At your regular command prompt and having typed
screen and hitting enter, you're presented with an identical command
prompt, and you go to where your zqds file lives and exicute it. That
part I'm sure ya already know but I include it for completeness.
From there to detach it, just do control-a and then control-d and putty
will ralph out some jibberiss but you can hit enter to confirm that
you're back at your normal command prompt.
To reattach the process just type
screen -r and hit enter.
You'll here more jibberish along with what you really want but you'll
be back in the screen window that your server is in. You can detach
and reattach as many times as ya want. I don't know bash at all, but
I'm looking for a course or something so I can learn it. I think with
the cron program one could make a script to see if the server is
running, and periodically kill and restart it, but I don't know how you
could use grep to query the server output so it would know if the
server has actually zombied so you'd run the risk of cutting off a game
in progress. Will give it more thought though.
For experimentation and if you want to get more into linux, ya might
try the latest Vinux, I've got AQ running on it, I.ve not tried setting
up a server on it, I prefer Slackware for all my server stuff, but that
may change when it comes to running AQ web stuff since the AQ guys used
Debian which Vinux iand Ubuntu is based on. Sorry for all the
rambling, but if you do try Vinux and find that the game launcher dies
out when you try to play there's a workaround... not perfect, but doable.
To tell ya how to do it though, I would need to know, are you using the
latest release of AQ or an older one?
Okay, I'll shut up for now, but I'll be around... good luck...
Take care...
Cheereo!
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