Oh, sorry.... forgot to mention... previously I was having the same issue, my L4D server would sit empty and connected to VAC, but as soon as even 1 person joins, the VAC disappears and it becomes insecure.
2009/1/3 Tom Richardson <[email protected]> > My GSP asked me to do a reinstall on my server to see if it helps, now I > can't ever get it to connect to VAC? The GSP are just acting confused and > say they've contacted Valve for help :/ > > 2009/1/3 Donnie Newlove <[email protected]> > > While players could still cheat without worrying about being VAC >> banned later this plugin would at least block the hundreds of >> thousands players that are already banned from entering the server. >> Unfortunately it will not help if the steam community is down as well, >> we are going to have to wait for the vacbanned.com plugin to do >> something about that. >> >> http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=80942 >> >> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Cc2iscooL <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Might have something to do with the current instability of the community >> > system. >> > >> > Could always do a verify_all to be safe, though. :) >> > >> > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Saint K. <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> We currently experience issue's with VAC dropping as well on TF2. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: [email protected] >> >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike >> Kent >> >> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 6:08 PM >> >> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >> >> Subject: [hlds_linux] L4D server becoming insecure >> >> >> >> We've been having a problem with one server, even though the server is >> >> set to be secure, after a player joins the server decides to become >> >> insecure, despite the server continuing to send out a heartbeat to the >> >> master servers etc... has any one had this problem before? The startup >> >> sequence has the following in it, which we're not too sure about: >> >> >> >> Commentary: Loading commentary data from maps/ >> >> l4d_hospital01_apartment_commentary.txt. >> >> [S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; unable to update local >> >> steamclient. Continuing with current version anyway. >> >> cminterface.cpp (932) : Assertion Failed: NULL != m_hConnection >> >> exec: couldn't exec banned_user.cfg >> >> exec: couldn't exec banned_ip.cfg >> >> Adding master server 72.165.61.189:27011 >> >> Adding master server 69.28.140.246:27011 >> >> Sending heartbeat to master server... >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> >> please visit: >> >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> >> please visit: >> >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
