I just fixed this. If the desired port isn't available you'll get a message
like this:
WARNING: Port X was unavailable - bound to port Y instead.
This will go out in the next update.
-Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jesse Molina
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 1:43 AM
To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] New Replay feature listening on 27040
Hi
Sorry for digging up this old email. It's been awhile since I've had
time to work on my server control scripts and I'm grepping old mail.
I want to second what was said below. Any sane program would exit with
an error status if it's manually allocated resources were already in
use, but the source server doesn't do that.
I consider this a bug and implore the developers to fix it. Even if you
had to add a new command line flag to permit for backwards compatible
behavior, that would be okay. Something like -explicitports or whatever.
While I'm complaining...
It would also be nice if ports actually used what port they are told to
use! For example, if you assign set "-steamport 26013", the process
will actually bind to port 26014 instead, making it necessary to
allocate resources in an odd order to prevent trampling (11, 13, 15, etc).
Claudio Beretta wrote:
> Another thing rather unusual in a server is that srcds binds to the next
> available port if the the main one is already taken. Most servers in this
> case would print an angry error message and then quit. What happens with
> srcds is that the server start apparently fine, and you end up scratching
> your head trying to figure out why it doesn't reply until you open netstat.
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