Hey, I'm having a few problems running the server. Observe:

[code]barney@ubuntu:~/soldat$ ls -l
total 2204
drwxr-xr-x 2 barney barney 4096 2005-11-06 20:51 anims
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 6144 2003-09-11 16:26 ASEQuery_soldat.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 0 2003-03-30 11:21 banned.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 barney barney 4096 2005-11-06 20:51 bots
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 10084 2005-01-24 02:52 Fcntl.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 8652 2005-01-24 02:52 HiRes.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 13964 2005-01-24 02:52 IO.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 29 2005-08-02 15:49 lobby_servers.txt
drwxr-xr-x 3 barney barney 4096 2005-11-06 21:31 logs
drwxr-xr-x 2 barney barney 4096 2005-11-06 20:51 maps
-rw-rw-rw- 1 barney barney 8 2005-11-06 21:18 mapslist.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 barney barney 4096 2005-11-06 20:51 objects
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 80992 2005-01-24 02:52 POSIX.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 4410 2005-07-08 19:27 readme-pl.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 5056 2005-08-22 18:41 readme.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 9 2005-08-03 12:51 remote.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 14740 2005-01-24 02:52 Socket.so
-rw-rw-rw- 1 barney barney 2303 2005-11-06 21:22 soldat.ini
-rwxr-xr-x 1 barney barney 911680 2005-01-24 02:52 soldatmonitor
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 7489 2005-11-06 21:23 soldatmonitor.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 barney barney 551124 2005-09-12 17:39 soldatserver
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 521728 2005-09-07 18:48 soldatserver.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 20676 2005-01-24 02:52 Tty.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 2755 2005-08-02 15:41 weapons121.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 barney barney 4930 2005-08-05 12:43 weapons.ini





barney@ubuntu:~/soldat$ ./soldatserver

........


ERROR: Could not load config file (missing or wrong version): soldat.ini
The server must be started with an Admin Password parameter to run Admin
edit SOLDAT.INI section [Network] Admin_Password=

........
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(I've cut some of the usual stuff).

I'm guessing the second error (about Admin_Password) is because it couldn't load soldat.ini in the first place! But it is there... I just don't understand. Is it looking in some other directory? The soldat.ini looks like this:



[code]...

[NETWORK]
Port=23073
JoinPort=23073
Max_Players=32
Default_Remote_Host=
Game_Password=
Admin_Password=<censored>
Connection=Internet
Lobby_Register=1
ASE_Register=0
Lobby_IP=65.169.85.3
Server_Name=
Dedicated=1
Clanmatch=0
Internet_Connection=3
Greeting_Message=Testing
Server_Info=
ShowRealLag=1
Min_Ping=0
Max_Ping=1000
Filter_Players=0
Filter_Gametype=0
Filter_Dedicated=0
Filter_NoPassword=0
Filter_NoBots=0
Filter_Survival=0
Filter_Realistic=0
Filter_NoBonuses=0
Filter_Weapons=0
Balance_Teams=1
Dont_Forward=0
Vote_Percent=60
Compression=1
Spectator=0
Max_Spectators=3
Spectator_Chat=1
Allow_Download=1

...[/code]

:o not an error ive ever seen pop up.... your case looks correct....

can i suggest speaking to flieslikeabrick, i know he has had a look at ubuntu. i use fedora when i can be arsed. i dont fiddle with flavours much. yes i know its redhat ;) but hey....

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i'm actually currently having this problem with a windows server, that is why the u13 pub hasnt been up for a month or two.

Everything looks fine to me, make sure your soldat.ini has the right number of lines and that it doesn't have an extra line at the end. I'm gonna try and fix mine since now i know that someone else is having the same problem.

I've run soldat servers fine on ubuntu and debian, as well as various RH/fedora configs... this isn't a linux related problem since it has the same issues on windows apparently

Turns out I had an extra line at the beginning of soldat.ini

OK next up :-) Is there a nice web-based tool to check whether soldat servers are accessable? Or is it a matter of asking a friend to check?