Our Servers [Discussion]

[Immortal]

I hope all leaders and admins don't mind, but I ask all {V][M}, what do you think of our current servers? Do you think they can be improved in any way? What do you like? What don't you like.

Some feedback would be welcome.

[Wormz]

Well, before i went offline for CnC3, i had these probs

Server1 - Crashed too much
Server2 - P/L
Server3 - Too many noobs coming here
and uhh.....server4..................................p erfect for tam :>

[Beamer]

I need a linux startup script for server4 xD I can't seem to get it working right, currently I'm using the function to check whether it's running or not but sometimes if the mapswitch takes too long it will think it's not running, and tries to reload the ucc-bin, but then mostly the other ucc-bin already runs, and this will cause a crash because of the same settings.

My current script:
#!/bin/sh
GAMEPATH=/var/www/vhosts/vehiclemasters.com/ut2004/System

while true
do
${GAMEPATH}/ucc-bin server VCTF-Illusion?game=XGame.xVehicleCTFGame?Mutator=UT2$
echo "Server crashed on " >> ${GAMEPATH}/crash.log
echo `date +%Y-%m-%d_%H.%M` >> ${GAMEPATH}/crash.log
done

And I also sometimes get this in the log:

Signal: SIGHUP [hangup]
Requesting Exit.
appRequestExit(0)
Signal: SIGHUP [hangup]
Aborting. (yesterday in aggressive alleys)

[Zeus]

Server1 - Crashed too much
Server2 - P/L
Server3 - Too many noobs coming here
and uhh.....server4..................................p erfect for tam :>


Agreed with wormz
but ye dude its true sometimes many noobs come
but that doesnt mean that we dont have the best srvr in ut
I mean sometimes very good players join it

[Hase^]

Agreed with wormz
but ye dude its true sometimes many noobs come
but that doesnt mean that we dont have the best srvr in ut
I mean sometimes very good players join it


yep i think so too but another point is that if i want to play UT at the morning ( weekend , holydays .... ) then there are no players and thats stupid couse on tpw are already some players but i dont think that this is a problem of the server :P

[Beamer]

That's because TPW allows ppl with cracked UT's to play on the server.

[Sky_|)r3aM3r]

That's because TPW allows ppl with cracked UT's to play on the server.
very good point, maybe we should do the same to, at least, server 3 to get more public

[dynikz]

I disagree, and I don't think Some_Mate can allow that because it's hosted and he can get in trouble and get the server taken away or something, also yeah there are way too many newbs on there, and again I don't think letting cracked versions of UT some on server three will get us better players, or more public at that as server three is mostly full anyway. I don't think there's anything we can do about the newbs... ^^ (Except from banning Makis from the server, hehehe.)

[Immortal]

very good point, maybe we should do the same to, at least, server 3 to get more public

I also disagree, it lets people get away with not having to buy the real thing, while other people pay good money for it (at least it's money well spent).

[JigsaW]

I think we're like the best clan when we look at the servers man we have FOUR servers!!!
Ok,, they're not all that good (crashing p/l, etc.) but FOUR servers! Most clans don't even have ONE
Some clans (DUB , HUN) even use OUR servers for wars, coz we have the good servers! Server 3 is perfect for wars
Wormz you gotta understand that there are still noobs, but they gotta learn and we should be happy that they keep coming back you know

{V][M} is da best when it comes to servers !!!

Greetz
JiggehSawweh

[Immortal]

you gotta understand that there are still noobs, but they gotta learn and we should be happy that they keep coming back you know

But these noobs scare others off of our servers too...

[Some_Mate]

noobs will come and go, servers will get better as we learn and iron out things.
when i can actually look at a log file after a crash i might be able to work out why it does sometimes.
Server 2 is pl sometimes, but its on a 400ish kbps upload with 2 other pc's running most of the time, 4 altogether sometimes, but it runs on W2k and ive never seen or heard of it crashing :-)

[RBlood]

Firstly,
Well, the server 1 crashing will *hopefully* be fixed now... As I swapped it with another (faster) comp :)

Some_mate,
If with the server 3 crashing you are referring to when it crashes at the end of a match when the map switches I think Annihilator did write a script to fix that, it just grabs the parameters that it's switching to from the log and if it crashes it uses that as the new startup parameters so it looks like it didn't crash :) The script can be obtained here, along with his explanation: http://tpw.reloaded.org/forum/index.php?topic=179.0

I never actually got around to putting it on my server though, lol :p (too lazy :D)

Cobalt,
I'm confused, your script looks correct to me? I don't understand why you think it will think it's not running if the map switch takes too long? There seems to be nothing in your code that suggests it would be doing that...? It should work fine, your code is basically the bash translation of the dos batch file code that I use...

[Beamer]

well, when the mapswitch takes place, sometimes, I see in the nohup-file (that is a file that gives me all the console output) that it tries to restart it before ucc-bin dies. But now it seems to be over, I think.
Maybe I'll try anni's script to load the current level :p

[RBlood]

well, when the mapswitch takes place, sometimes, I see in the nohup-file (that is a file that gives me all the console output) that it tries to restart it before ucc-bin dies. But now it seems to be over, I think.
Maybe I'll try anni's script to load the current level :tongue:

Odd... you sure you're interpreting the nohup file correctly? :p
Maybe it's just the output is a bit weird... I dunno :p Also make sure your not running two instances of UT at the same time... I did that the other day, oops, makes for some strange effects each time a map switch takes place lol...

[Some_Mate]

for server 5 i think perhaps this may help?
http://www.utzone.de/include.php?path=content/download.php&contentid=5190

[PEDRO]

what does every1 think of vm 5?

[Immortal]

what does every1 think of vm 5?

Brilliant. No problems whatsoever at the moment.

[Some_Mate]

i will post a new section, just about server 3 later, but just to let u guys know for now.
I have added UTAN and anti-tcc, these will enable super duper logs of everything, and will as of 2nite be setting server to log all chat 2!
So if there are any probs, it will be much easyer to find the naughty person!
This has come about also due to people faking their names on servers like the "{DUB}Oisin" faker that no 1 noticed and i had no logs of it, and that isn't good!
Complete server setup info comming soon, :-D

[RBlood]

Well, server 5 is good, but, it crashed yesterday and restarted in ONS-Torlan and all the voting and everything was disabled - I assume when it restarts the mutators don't get loaded? Maybe that needs fixing...

[Zeus]

Well, server 5 is good, but, it crashed yesterday and restarted in ONS-Torlan and all the voting and everything was disabled - I assume when it restarts the mutators don't get loaded? Maybe that needs fixing...


it trully needs fix dude
i mean imagine
u play a very good game
rly exciting
and
boum
crash and n o voting

[Some_Mate]

yes server 5's setup is fucked!
Send a ticket with the subject....."Update server start command"
Make sure the server start line is 100% correct!
They will change it, then sort the rest of the crap out :-P

[Beamer]

I gave pedro a while ago the correct command line... Because it's crappy to change the command line (you have to ask it everytime), it's easier for him to use UT2vote, so that adding muts doesn't require any change to the command line, looks like pedro didn't ask for a change lol.

[Some_Mate]

yeah lol wana play some default torlan? hehe :-D

[Some_Mate]

I'll post this here...just to say i have some more zounds on the way...im gona remove some lesser used ones and add some MR T zounds, and some other really funny ones...this will be one..the end bit haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1YIT-HINKg

[WyrmFyre]

Server3 - Too many noobs coming here



Although being one of the afforementioned noobs, i say bring back MCM! Has it been done in a while?

[Some_Mate]

ok lol do mcm again this monday :-)
and btw have u used IRC mr wyrmfyre?

[Kronikiz]

Yep, he goes on IRC sometimes.

[WyrmFyre]

I have but not very often....

[Kammeh!]

He used to be around on IRC a lot, at least a lot compared to most members... we really should start using IRC more. :)

[Some_Mate]

yeah ^^^