That's the thing. We were not discussing the server daemon (unless there is a live update method that I am not yet aware of).
We were talking about "./steam -command update" overwriting user-modified files and how to prevent it.
But yea, I'll blame Valve on the startup daemon. It's not all that either. =)
Gene H wrote:
blame valve...I didn't write the daemon. On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Jesse Molina <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: You didn't think/read. This doesn't address the issue at hand. Gene H wrote: chmod 644 (or 640 for the paranoid) owned by root:group run game daemon in the same group but different user....so game daemon only has read-only access... shoot...NO daemon should have write access to config files (any configs that the daemon can change should be in another file.) On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Jesse Molina<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello I'm sympathetic, being a noob here myself. I just discovered this a day or two ago; srcds_run -help srcds_run is actually just a bash script wrapper/launcher for srcds_linux. Reading it can be very informative (less srcds_run). Numerous comments explain some features of the script that are not documented anywhere else. In regards to the update script overwriting user-modified files, the Valve devs would be wise to look at how APT/RPM package management systems handles user-modified files. Any further info on this subject would be welcome. Otherwise, I'm going to have to keep backups of my entire install directory before updates, then get more specific with my backup list over time as I understand what files I need to modify and are likely to be overridden during an update. If anyone has reading recommendations on updating and updating for multiple installations, and management of multiple game server installations in general, that would be appreciated. I need to do some reading here on the subject soon.
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