Geeze I used to know how the ban system worked until I read this!?!?!
Talk about making something simple into an overly complicated mess. Reminds me of this joke http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/sciagr/sis/maths/tjokes1.htm#Advice :) On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:42:32 -0500, David Fencik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct. That is what I'm saying. Note that bans are not removed by > execing a banned.cfg whose contents are a subset of the current banned > list. To speak in mathematical jibberish...upon execution of "exec > banned.cfg", the set of all bans is equal to the union of the set of > currently banned users and the set of users contained in the banned.cfg. > The only way to remove bans from the banned.cfg file through rcon is to > remove bans from the current list of bans and then to writeid (or wait > until your server restarts and writeid). If your current list of bans > is empty, then your banned.cfg will be empty. > > If you change your firing order to the following, you'll be all set: > > > exec banned.cfg > exec listip.cfg > writeid > > Dave > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elminst > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 11:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [hlds] disappearing bans? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Fencik > > > > This behavior is by design. The bans don't save unless you write > them. > > They will disappear every time the server is restarted, which in your > > case is every 24hours. > > > > Dave > > > > Yes.. but that's what the "writeid" at the end of the server.cfg is > supposed > to do. > So the bans get written to the file on every map change. > > So you're saying that when the server.cfg is loaded on first startup, a > writeid will clear the ban file? > If true, then that's not how it used to work, and is also pretty frickin > lame. > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.3 - Release Date: 11/26/2004 > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
