Utility: Linux Admining

[lch]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

NEW TERRITORY:

Ive now been asked to host a multi-connect game. One that supports Direct, and PBEM, and FTP, and possibly WEB upload.

The first headache is that if I run the game 24/7 for direct connect then it doesnt "see" any new .2h files that are copied to the games directory.

I already hosted a networked game that had an alternative web upload method for one person who had firewall issues to connect normally and I don't remember any problems. What you should make sure is that the game server has access to the new *.2h files, so you should chmod them to 0666 after uploading or chown them to the account that the server is running under, and maybe "touch" them as well. If you want, I can send you the PHP turn file upload/download script that I created for my networked game.

[Gandalf Parker]

Actually most of "getting the files there and usable" I think I have down from painful learning experience in game 1 of the series which was all pbem. Some simple bit of PHP for uploading would be useful though.

But do you remember, did you ever come up with a way to force Dom3 running in server mode to SEE the new files without taking the game down and restarting it? So far all tests seem to say thats what I will be forced to try and script.