Help setting up Railwarz CTF Linux Server

[bvughtoonice]

alright i got it working again finally.
connect 216.52.143.109

i attached my mapfile.

but even when i edit it down to just 4 or 5 maps i get the same error

[bvughtoonice]

Tested q2pro on Windows talking to r1q2 server on Windows and it displays OK. I don't have an easy way to set up a Linux server just now.

I think those are single-quotes, not commas. This needs more testing.

I'd like you to remove the \n in the

safe_cprintf(ent, PRINT_HIGH, "%s - '%s'   \n", maplist->mapname, maplist->mapnick);

in Cmd_MapVote function and rebuild to be sure it's not a server problem... this will revert the change and make the mapvote list spammy on the console again. It's the only thing that changed the way the list is displayed.

I'm wondering about the map list file... could there be something in that file that's creating blank strings that the loader is seeing? Zip up your maplist file and attach it. I want to see it directly.

i deleted the \n from
g_cmds.c
remade the .so replaced it.
b.ut still same output nothing changed

i guess i deleted the wrong /n
did it again deleted the right one this time and now mapvote still works but does not display any list at all in console
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just to be certain.
i re cloned from bitbucket
removed the /n
and no maplist output displays in console

[bvughtoonice]

I do not get this error. but the only 2 other people that have connected said they do when someone is fragged.
i think they are both using r1q2 and im using q2pro.
im running r1q2 server
not sure whats casuing it?

[QwazyWabbit]

Tested q2pro on Windows talking to r1q2 server on Windows and it displays OK. I don't have an easy way to set up a Linux server just now.

I think those are single-quotes, not commas. This needs more testing.

I'd like you to remove the \n in the

safe_cprintf(ent, PRINT_HIGH, "%s - '%s'   \n", maplist->mapname, maplist->mapnick);

in Cmd_MapVote function and rebuild to be sure it's not a server problem... this will revert the change and make the mapvote list spammy on the console again. It's the only thing that changed the way the list is displayed.

I'm wondering about the map list file... could there be something in that file that's creating blank strings that the loader is seeing? Zip up your maplist file and attach it. I want to see it directly.

i deleted the \n from
g_cmds.c
remade the .so replaced it.
b.ut still same output nothing changed

i guess i deleted the wrong /n
did it again deleted the right one this time and now mapvote still works but does not display any list at all in console
----------------------------------------
just to be certain.
i re cloned from bitbucket
removed the /n
and no maplist output displays in console

\n not /n there are never /n in printf statements and I found several of them in the old TMG code.
I pushed the change to the repo, pull it again and recompile, that way we know exactly what's changed and can compare results.

I pushed another change. It expands the maplist to 256 and ought to fix that oldframe message on r1q2 clients. I think there's a way to turn it off because I don't see it on my b8012 or b7904 clients, if I can find the command I'll post it.

Two questions: are 256 maps enough now? Are there 256 CTF compatible maps in existence?

[bvughtoonice]

lol ya 256 should be plenty. I just want any player to have the ability to call a mapvote to any map with out needing an admin present. also less server maintenance/map list request if they are all just there in the first place. The railwarz CTF community votes a new map for each game because the rotation has been bugged for so long. We might mainly play about 20 of the same maps. but its fun to try other random ones out sometimes. and also amount of players has a lot to do with which maps we pick.
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ah ya that was a typo on the /n \n
i recompiled the .so with what was on bitbucket.
i still dont see any maps listed in console.
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i connected with an r1q2 client and didnt see the error about the gibs or whatever people were seeing will test again later with a fresh r1q2 install.
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can you post a link/attach here on thread/or email me a gamei386.dll that is working

[QwazyWabbit]

Beav,
Here's the Windows DLL, it does not require the redistributable runtime msvcr100.dll, it's lib-linked so it should run even if you don't have VS2010 or the runtime DLL installed on your system.

[QwazyWabbit]

OK, I figured out why the maplist is messed up on Linux and not Windows.

The maps_ctf.txt on your Linux server was edited on Windows and somehow transferred without translation for line endings. If you use FTP to transfer a text file to a Linux server you have to remember to set ASCII mode before the transfer or it will get sent with the Windows line endings. Best way to handle FTP is with FileZilla, it takes care of that for you automagically.
 
Windows uses \r\n for line endings and OS X and Linux use \n just to keep it interesting.

The s_map.c module is the code responsible for reading the maps from the maplist file and populating the array that's used for mapvote, with all those extra CRLF's in there it's introducing blank data to the array and when the mapvote command function presents the list it dumps the whole thing, empty data and all.

You don't have all the Linux packages installed on your server yet. It's missing a lot of things, the 'man' command for one, dos2unix would have been nice, it converts Windows CRLF to LF but it's not available on your server. I recommend running a few package add-ons to give yourself more tools on the server.

I converted the file using this perl one-liner and your maplist is now working fine.
perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/g' /home/quake2/ctf/cfg/maps_ctf.txt

I'm going to run it on more of the text files for completeness.

FWIW, the extra arrow character was the CR being appended to the map list elements in the menu.

Here's another command to see the line endings: hexdump -c filename.txt

I'm also going to look into the s_map code to see if there's a way to detect and fix this when it happens again for someone else.

[bvughtoonice]

Man that's awesome!  Wish I knew what you knew lol

I def need to get caught up on Linux knowledge.

All this got me wondering.  In the mapvote GUI menu. Can we increase the value above 42? Let's say 256? Just to make it match?

[QwazyWabbit]

Man that's awesome!  Wish I knew what you knew lol

I def need to get caught up on Linux knowledge.

All this got me wondering.  In the mapvote GUI menu. Can we increase the value above 42? Let's say 256? Just to make it match?

Man that's awesome!  Wish I knew what you knew lol

I def need to get caught up on Linux knowledge.

All this got me wondering.  In the mapvote GUI menu. Can we increase the value above 42? Let's say 256? Just to make it match?

That's a big change. The map vote menu is a cascade of 3 views for going forward and back in the menus. There are 14 map names in each menu plus 1 for the "More  maps.." and "..back" lines,  3 * 14 is 42, the answer to life, the universe and everything. It was OK to design it that way for a limited set of maps but it will take a complete redesign to do it in a function that can handle a dynamic menu. The three menus were copy-paste-modify clones of each other but a proper redesign should do it quite differently.

That's one for later I think unless one of the other modders out there has solved it. LOX doesn't use menus for that, you just type the name of the map you want with "vote map mapname" and if the map exists on the server it proceeds with the vote, it doesn't have to be on a list. I think with CTF it's a lot different since not all maps are CTF compatible so it was necessary to restrict the list.

The original Q2 menu was supposed to fit inside the help computer plate and frame. This makes it opaque but the system was also designed for 640 x 480 screens and a very limited number of lines of text. I find the transparent list very hard to read if the scene isn't dark.

One thing you can do in the mean time is just keep the best maps in the top 42 and/or rotate the map list files every month or so. LOX has monthly rotations in 12 maplist files and automatically changes map list files on its own.

[bvughtoonice]

wow thats pretty cool with the LOX setup!

42 is plenty for the gui. sounds complicated the way it works lol but i prefer using the console over the GUI anyway esp now that you cleared it up!

thank you so much for working on this!

huge improvement to the mod!

[bvughtoonice]

google drive link to a ton of CTF maps


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6dCFo61y9N_WlZXWFQ0TlVvYUU/view?usp=sharing

[bvughtoonice]

Railwarz CTF How to
http://railwarz.com/forum/index.php?topic=466.msg4298#msg4298

preconfigured fresh install of both r1q2 and q2pro. 3 versions of each
bright skins fire and ice.
bright red and blue
and some custom one.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6dCFo61y9N_dGRuUmgxdVQ3RDQ/view

[bvughtoonice]

[bvughtoonice]

Interview with the "Father of RAILWARZ" - Doug "The Raven" Buckley

http://railwarz.com/forum/index.php?topic=469.0

[bvughtoonice]

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