If your server crashes it uses the banned.cfg and listip.cfg (for banned IP's) to restore the bans after restarting.
Let's say your server caught an aimbotter and banned him for lets say 24hrs. If your server was to crash this 24hr ban would no longer exist! Why? Because the server crashed without saving to banned.cfg (writeid)
It's only cached as long as the server is running. If you shut the server it dumps the cache (writeid) in to guess what? The banned.cfg
If you shut the server (they proper way) and delete the banned.cfg there will be no more bans saved whatsoever!
If you delete banned.cfg while server is running it will recreate the same file with all the banned ID's!
This is why the only way to delete the bans is to completely shut down the server.
OR
If you do choose to remove bans with a running server you must use the removeid then writeid commands accordingly.
Hope that helps
Regards
Agent 001Fox wrote:
Halflife server DOES have a cache to preserve banned ID's in case of a servercrash.
Probably the same thing happens when there are spaces after a steam ID in the banned.cfg.
That's why it keeps loading all those ID's everytime.
It doesn't matter if I had emptied or deleted the banned.cfg file.
//DiS|Fox Homepage: http://www.sweDiS.se/ Server: http://dis1.hopto.org:27015
From: "Alexander Kobbevik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If you deleted the banned.cfg as you said, how can you blame spaces?
I think you insulted this list more then any here has insulted you.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Agent 001Fox Sent: 28. februar 2005 11:10 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds] Eric/Alfred: How to empty banned.cfg's cache
Anyway I solved it by myself.
The reason it was behaving so strangely and nobody(!) could figure it out
was that I had a space behind several Steam ID's in the banned.cfg. This
happened when copying some ID's from my webpage and opening the cfg
file in Wordpad instead of Notes.
Thanks for all the help and insults.
//DiS|Fox Homepage: http://www.sweDiS.se/ Server: http://dis1.hopto.org:27015
>From: "Mikee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Is it possible that he is running some metamod application like Admin
>Mod/AMX Mod that is keeping his bans in their own folder location, in
>addition to the banned.cfg? Just for the hell of it, once you shut down
>the HLDS Gameserver, delete ALL versions of banned.cfg, banned_users.cfg or
>any other file that has "ban" in it. > >This topic is now getting old...because this issue is just not this >complex. LOL!
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Clayton Macleod"
>nobody said anything about shutting down your computer. That isn't >necessary. And no matter how sure you are that you've already tried >something, do exactly what I say here and you'll be fine. If you're >not, then you skipped something, and everybody should just ignore you >from now on because you're braindead. > >KILL THE GAME SERVER PROCESS. > >Stop thinking about the computer itself as a server. When someone says >server here, we're talking about the program that functions as the >game server. Forget about hardware, forget about the machine. Someone >says server, it means the game server program. Got it? > >I think the problem here is that you've got the >banned.cfg/banned_user.cfg being execed in your server.cfg file. >Remove the line from your server.cfg that looks like: > >exec banned.cfg >or >exec banned_user.cfg > >Once you remove that from server.cfg, save it, and then kill the >server again. Then delete that banned_user.cfg file too. THEN AND ONLY >THEN should you start the server back up again. This way you don't >have a banned_user.cfg file to begin with, and even if you did it >won't get executed from the server.cfg file. This means you have >absolutely no way of getting any old bans back. That file is the ONLY >place they are EVER stored. If that file doesn't exist when your >server isn't running then all your bans are gone forever. Simple as >that.
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