RE: (clug-talk) (OT) Half-life server for linux

[Curtis Sloan]

The Linux Half-Life dedicated server is only bundled as hlds_l_3110_full.bin.  When you run the .bin it will extract a .tar.gz for you and from there you unpack the rest of the files for the DS.  Mod servers (e.g. CS, DoD, etc.) are tarred as .tar.gz, though.

 

Do a Google for "hlds_l_3110_full.bin" and you should find plenty of sites.  I would suggest finding an FTP site and a good FTP client w/ resume capabilities, etc. just to make sure your download is complete.  Some sites have file byte sizes and MD5 sums as well.

 

If you confirm your file by doing the above, I think it is fairly safe to assume that the problem is architecture-related.

 

HTH,

Curtis

-----Original Message-----
From: nathan wainwright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: October 9, 2003 4:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) (OT) Half-life server for linux

Okay to clarify

The machine is a power mac 7200/90, 64 megs ram, 5 gigs hdd space.

it is currently running mac os 9.1, and yellowdog linux 2.3 (it needs mac os, because of the 'oldworld/newworld' rom stuff)

the HLDS server i downloaded is for linux, and someone has before gotten it running on a mac, running linux.

my problem, even thought i just tried downloading it to my powerbook, then to my linux server.

is the somehow the .bin file becomes unusable when it hits linux.

i've tried chmod a+x and chmod 755... with these new files... and running it as sh hlds.bin and ./hlds.bin

neither work, both state that it's not executable.

and seeing that the only place i can get this file from, is file planet, and those butthat's think that not using .tar.gz is a good idea... if someone can point me to a better server with it (google'd all i can), i'd be happy-er.

thanks

-- nathan wainwright

Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 11:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  

actually googling last night (30-40mins of searching after i sent that email).

i found one, very small link, to someone who did install the HLDS (halflife dedicated server) to the mac... 

my current problem, is that i can only download this stupid binary (no tar, or gz) through IE on windows... then copy it to my mac server... from what I can tell that process destroys part of the file.
    

The resource fork is missing, Windows uses the 3 letters after the . on
a filename to determine what to do with it, Mac has a seperate hidden
file to keep track of that kind of thing, downloading to mac from pc
doesn't store/create this. You need to download it using a mac.