This has been mentioned many many times before, but given your fixing cfg
pathing its something I'll bring up a again ;-)
We really need a engine based command line option which sets the base directory
for the where configs, logs, bans etc are stored.
Other engines / games have been providing this really useful feature for years,
yet the source engine still doesn't have it making its titles much harder to
support multiple servers from a single install :(
Adding a command like option such as -basepath <directory> which enabled all
configs, logs etc to be read for a specific base directory would help immensely
not only for the core game functionality but also for addons, mods etc.
This way you can have a single install of the game add the one option to the
command line and everything works as expected for multiple servers e.g.
Server 1: hl2ds -basepath server1
Server 2: hl2ds -basepath server2
This would allow easy hosting of multiple servers without constantly worrying
about conflicts between servers as they read configs or write state based
information to a location that conflicts with other servers running from the
same core game directory.
Regards
Steve
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From: Fletcher Dunn
To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list
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Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 6:48 PM
Subject: [hlds_announce] Pre-release updates available for CS:S, DoD:S,and
HL2:DM
We're trying out different way to release updates that will hopefully reduce
disruption to your communities.
New builds are now available for the client and dedicated server for CS:S,
DoD:S, and HL2:DM. These builds have the same PatchVersion and are network
compatible with the current build. (It's an "optional update" for servers.)
To obtain these builds, you need to opt into the prerelease beta.
To opt into the prerelease beta on the client, right click on the game in the
game list and select Properties, select the "Betas" tab, and select the
"prerelease" beta. (This is a public beta and does not require a password.)
To select which branch to sync the dedicated server to using steamcmd, you
need to pass "-beta prerelease" to the app_update command. For example, if you
are using a SteamCmd script file, you might have something like this:
login anonymous
force_install_dir cstrike
app_update 232330 -beta prerelease
quit
(I am told that it is possible to pass the -beta switch on the steamcmd
command line, through some magic combination of quoting, so you can avoid
having to create a script file. Hopefully some kind soul will figure out how
to do that and share it.)
Switching between two steampipe branches is really fast and easy, so if
there's a problem, you can switch back quickly. (Opting out of the "steampipe
beta" was really painful because it was switching between two entirely
different content distribution systems --- that will never apply again.)
If no big problems are detected, we'll make these builds the official build
on Monday.
Our current plan is to always keep the prerelease branch active, even if it
is the same build as the main branch. This way you can stay opted in. In
other words, "prerelease" actually means "the latest available build".
We're not sure if every update we release needs to go out as a prerelease
first.
Here are the change notes for the builds we are releasing today:
Source engine games:
* mapcycle and motd files now reside in the cfg folder by default, or in the
root as a fallback.
* Default mapcycle and motd files are now shipped as cfg/xxx_default.txt, and
will be used if the filename convar is at the default value and no custom file
is found in the cfg folder or the root.
* mapcycle file can contain blank lines and //-style comments
* mapcycle file loaded from the custom folder.
* Greatly reduced memory usage on the client and server
* Added some hardcoded rules to the "end" of sv_pure rule list.
* Fixed some filesystem calls not properly obeying pure server rules.
* Fixed model bounds and simple materials consistency checking rules. (Fixed
Counter-Strike server spew.)
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