Milton, For information, the +hostport was working fine until the last 2 or 3 updates. The use of -port is now required to make it work properly.
Cheers, Marc. On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Milton Ngan <[email protected]>wrote: > You can use +hostport (or -port) to specify a port. But if that port is in > use, the engine will search for the next available port. There isn't a way > to turn that feature off unfortunately. So you need to allocate your ports > explicitly if you want to avoid this behavior. > > M. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of kama > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 12:34 PM > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] port changes > > > Hi! > > The question was if it was something available in the server itself. like > a cvar, startup option or something like that. So it does not pick next > available port number. > > /Bjorn > > On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Joonas Lehtolahti wrote: > > > One could make a bash script to check the port availability and only > start > > the server if it is free. Something like this: > > > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > PORT=27015 > > > > if [[ $(netstat -nul | grep $PORT) ]] > > then > > echo "Port $PORT already in use, not starting SRCDS" > > else > > ./srcds_run $* > > fi > > > > > > Now instead of using srcds_run directly, you would call this script. Of > > course you can customize it to your heart's contents as you see fit. > > > > > > On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:40:37 +0300, clad iron <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > i'm not following 100% but if i do understand right. > > > Your wanting to see if a port is already in use ? > > > > > > 1 easy way if you already have another server installed. you could just > > > start it up on the port in question and watch the console output. it > will > > > tell you if it's already in use, but at that point it WILL pick another > > > port > > > and continue to load up. > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:42 AM, kama <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> Hi! > > >> > > >> Is there an option for srcds based games not to change the port number > > >> when the port is used on start? > > >> > > >> I just want it to tell me that the port is allready in use and quit. > > >> > > >> /Bjorn > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> 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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
