Armagetron Dedicated not picking up config

Cabey · Post by **Cabey** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:51 am

Hi guys,

I'm having some issues setting up a dedicated Armagetron Advanced server on Gentoo. I have tried an emerge and also installed from source however I can't get the AA server to pickup my config files.

The way I am testing the config files is setting the SERVER_NAME flag in /etc/armagetronad/server_info.cfg

Could this setting be overwritten by another file? Is there an option that defines where the config should be?

I've tried armagetronad-dedicated --configdir /etc/armagetronad with no sucess.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:38 am

Hi and welcome!

What version are you trying to install? AFAIK, the latest in portage is 0.2.7.1 And there, we don't yet use the server_info.cfg file. You need to put all your custom settings either settings_dedicated.cfg (where it will be overwritten if you reinstall) or autoexec.cfg. Or you can manually add

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include server_info.cfg

at the bottom of settings_dedicated.cfg.

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 8:41 am

You should consider installing the latest beta, so you can help us test.

If you don't mind, of course.

/me reminds himself to make sure the wiki is explicit about the server_info.cfg and settings_custom.cfg files

Cabey · Post by **Cabey** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:34 pm

I could definately give the latest version a bash, at this stage it is only a small Australian based server off my DSL connection for a few mates but might be looking to expand it to a dedicated box with higher bandwidth if there is interest.

What is the best way for me to get the latest beta on Gentoo?

Walking Tree · Post by **Walking Tree** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:38 pm

get the lates beta from http://beta.armagetronad.net/ and build from source. currently, i'd get http://beta.armagetronad.net/fetch.php/ ... rc.tar.bz2

Grogen · Post by **Grogen** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:35 am

Lucifer wrote:You should consider installing the latest beta, so you can help us test. If you don't mind, of course.

/me reminds himself to make sure the wiki is explicit about the server_info.cfg and settings_custom.cfg files

Lucifer. Just reminding you about this.

Could you please make a note in the wiki about the difference in using autoexec in 0.2.7.1 and settings_custom/server_info in 0.2.8. The current stable releases of the dedicated server are still available as 2.7.1 on the project site and it was driving me insane as to why my server was not loading settings as per wiki instructions...I ended up just sticking everything in everytime.cfg, now I have a convoluted set of cfg files. I only found this post just now..for those not so savy ppl this might be a problem.

Also are the "example" cfg files mentioned in the wiki supposed come with the Windows version of the server? Because I could not find them.

Thanks

P.S. before you try and convince me to make the migration to Linux, I will after I have got the server testing done.

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:54 am

Thank you. I added some more stuff to the Server Admin Guide on the wiki about this. One thing that's different is that I learned what autoexec.cfg was for.

So I added stuff to be more explicit, hopefully it makes more sense.