=============================================================================== Action Quake2 - Base Server Installer by Paul Klumpp (2012-11-18) It's always the same in Linux: To make it work on your system, some quake2 stuff needs to be compiled. Please follow these simple instructions. First, on Linux, be an unprivileged user. The following will create a "aq2-basesrv" directory, so, there is no need to create a new directory. Just start the the magic script by: curl -L https://bitbucket.org/PaulKlumpp/aq2-basesrv/raw/ba723ec3be9c076971152da77b9bd274abb53e8f/q2compile/aq2-bsrv-pkg.sh | bash -s first For future updates, start this: curl -L https://bitbucket.org/PaulKlumpp/aq2-basesrv/raw/ba723ec3be9c076971152da77b9bd274abb53e8f/q2compile/aq2-bsrv-pkg.sh | bash -s update Note: These magic scripts will install or update everything, but they won't overwrite your changes on configuration files. =============================================================================== Now, to YOUR JOB! Your job is to configure your server, so read the following steps carefully and learn something. =============================================================================== ABOUT THE ACTION QUAKE 2 MOD CONFIGURATION: ------------------------------------------- Change to your q2 server action directory: cd aq2-basesrv/q2srv/action/ There, you have to edit your configuration files, and set your stuff up. See which cfg files are there: ls -1 *cfg Edit h_passwords.cfg so you have a rcon_password that you actually know: nano h_passwords.cfg Edit aq2_1.cfg, aq2_2.cfg etc so you have a nice hostname etc. nano aq2_1.cfg etc. For information about AQ2-TNG Mod settings inside those configuration files, see the documentation inside the docs/ directory!! Inside the h_admin/ directory are admin helper scripts. With those little scripts you can get additional maps or update your soundlist.ini. This will install cloud.bsp and update your maplist (config/maplist.ini): ./getmap.sh cloud This will update your soundlist (config/soundlist.ini) for a public server usage which is more fun ;) : ./make_sndlist.sh ABOUT GS STARTER: ----------------- Edit the gs_starter.cfg and try to study what it says: nano gs_starter.cfg Note: The ACTIVATE variable defines which instances get run by ./gs_starter.sh startwatch. And obviously, the rest of the variables define starting parameters for these instances. Start the gs_starter.sh script... With default gs_starter.cfg, it will watch over your Action Quake 2 game server instances 1, 2 and 3: screen ./gs_starter.sh startwatch IT'S DONE. YOU'RE READY TO GO! But if you're new to Linux and "screen", you have to read "ABOUT SCREEN". You can kill ALL instances with: ./gs_starter.sh stopall Note: If they were watched by startwatch, the instances will come up again. You can kill an instance X with: ./gs_starter.sh stop X Note: If it was watched by startwatch, the instance will come up again. You can start an instance X with: ./gs_starter.sh start X Note: This does not necessarily mean that this instance is watched. You can stop watching the instances with: ./gs_starter.sh stopwatch For help, just start it: ./gs_starter.sh ABOUT SCREEN: ------------- You can get a list of running gameserver instances with: screen -ls You can attach to a running gameserver instance with: screen -x gs1 or screen -x gs2 etc. You can detach from a gameserver instance with: Press ctrl+a then press d And now, have fun!