Same here. Gifts drop for a while then stop, with a full server. Have to
restart to get them back. Rinse, repeat. Love the event, though. Glad you
guys are running it as long as you are. :)

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Andreas Grimm <[email protected]> wrote:

> My gameservers run halloween maps 24/7 without any mapchanges.****
>
> ** **
>
> This morning they dropped gifts without any problems, but a few hours later
> they stopped dropping the gifts.****
>
> I changed nothing during the runtime and all servers are successfully
> registered. Only a complete server restart solved the problem.****
>
> ** **
>
> After the restart the gift drops were back.****
>
> ** **
>
> Atm it seems that they stopped dropping gifts again. 30 players on it,
> registered, get gifts earlier this day and now - nothing.****
>
> Is there any "registration timeout" or something like that active?****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Fletcher Dunn
> *Sent:* Friday, October 28, 2011 10:42 PM
> *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list; Half-Life dedicated
> Linux server mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: [hlds] TF2 registered servers: check for rogue '=' in the
> convar settings****
>
> ** **
>
> One last thing.****
>
> ** **
>
> You **should** see either this line:****
>
> ** **
>
>                 Game server authentication: SUCCESS! Standing: %s. Trend:
> %s****
>
> ** **
>
> or this line:****
>
> ** **
>
>                 Game server authentication: FAILURE!****
>
> ** **
>
> Pretty soon upon boot.  If you don't that means your server is not even
> attempting to sign on, and there's probably something wrong with the
> convars.****
>
> ** **
>
> If you see the SUCCESS! message, but are still not getting Halloween drops,
> please post that fact on this list.****
>
> ** **
>
> Your humble servant,****
>
> Fletch****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Fletcher Dunn
> *Sent:* Friday, October 28, 2011 1:38 PM
> *To:* Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list; Half-Life dedicated
> Win32 server mailing list
> *Subject:* [hlds] TF2 registered servers: check for rogue '=' in the
> convar settings****
>
> ** **
>
> If your server is not getting Halloween drops, check if your config file
> has an '=' in the lines to set the registration convars.****
>
> ** **
>
> Also,  make sure you put the identity token in quotes.****
>
> ** **
>
> If you have these two problems, you probably (quite reasonably) cut and
> paste the two config file lines from the client console when you registered
> your server.  That output erroneously had the ='s in them, and did not quote
> the identity token.  We fixed the output soon after we shipped the
> registered server feature, which explains why a lot of people not getting
> the drops are also saying that they have been registered for a long time.*
> ***
>
> ** **
>
> In case that does not fix the problem, the next update will provide more
> verbose logging so such errors will not go undetected for so long.****
>
> ** **
>
> Your humble servant,****
>
> Fletch****
>
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