Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead - Linux Standalone Server 1.56 BETA

[Maruk]

Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead - Linux Standalone Server 1.56 BETA is available now.

Note that it requires Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead to be updated to version 1.56 first in order to run properly.

Please provide us with feedback to this topic.

Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead - Linux Standalone Server 1.55 BETA
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Copyrigt (c) 2010 Bohemia Interactive Studio. All rights reserved.

For more information please visit
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/A...dicated_Server


Installation instructions:
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1. Following programs must have been installed on your Linux-box:
tar, gcc. Optional: md5sum (for setup integrity check)

1a. On some verions of Linux (this was reported for RedHat 9
and Gentoo linux 2.4.20) the NSCD deamon must be installed to
run ArmA 2 server successfully. Caching of DNS would be sufficient.

2. Copy the whole "ArmA 2 Operation Arrowhead" directory from Windows
to some Linux-directory (arma2arrowhead). DON'T DO ANY DATA CONVERSIONS
(even "dos2unix" translation of text files is not necessary).
Example: you can use PKZIP (WinZip, PowerArchiver, etc.) on
Windows and "unzip" on Linux.
Don't use upper case letters in the ArmA2 directory name
(/home/bob/arma2arrowhead will be good, /home/bob/ArmA2ArrowHead
may cause some troubles).
ArmA2 directory should contain subdirectories "Addons", "Bin",
"Campaigns", etc.

3. Copy the "server-x.xx.tar.gz" (x.xx is version number) file into
the arma2arrowhead directory. Unpack and install it with commands:

arma2arrowhead$ tar -xjf server-x.xx.tar.bz2
arma2arrowhead$ ./install

Watch the messages - they will inform you whether your installation
is successful.

4. Dedicated server can be started in foreground:

arma2arrowhead$ ./server

Or in background:

o$ nohup ./server > out.txt 2> err.txt &
[1] <pid>

5. Running server can be stopped by executing:

$ kill -s SIGINT <pid>

Where <pid> is process-id of mother server thread (printed out in
"nohup" command).

6. ArmA2 ArrowHead server has a feature: command-line parameter
"-pid=<pid_file>". It causes creation of <pid_file> with
PID of root ArmA2 process. If IP port specified in "-port=<nn>"
parameter is busy (in usage), ArmA2 will terminate immediately
and <pid_file> won't be written..

7. The "arma2server" script is provided for automatic server
start/restart/status query/etc. Please be sure to edit
CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS in lines 12 to 18 !
After this is done, install (hard-link?) the script into
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/arma2server" file. After that it can be managed
by "chkconfig" (see info/man).

[scale]

Question about server data:

The server data, must be include:

BAF lite
PMC lite

OR (i have buyed both at sprocket)

BAF Full
PMC Full

to work perfect?

[Dwarden]

For servers and DLC data You must use only Lite variant !!

[byteslam]

to be honest, I am really tired of this.
BI releases an update, I have to install ArmaII, ArmaOA and the latest patch to get a clean version....the version I use for play which includes the full patches does not work (always the yellow question mark in the server list)

Is it so complicated to release a server version (the Linux one) with everything included?

This game lives from the community support but I am really get pissed off about the BI update /upgrade policy.

[bravo1romeo]

The issue is the Update Patchs are for windows, and they patch the .pbo files with updates, but there is no equivalent patch for linux!
So to update linux I have to first update on windows, which is quick and only requires downloads the size of the patch ~300MB But then I have to upload to my server, every file which has changed in it's entirety, which last time equated to over 4000MB of uploading and since my upload rate is much lower than my download rate it took me almost 20 hours to get my server updated!

Can't a similar .pbo updater be released for linux so I can just execute it from ssh?

[scale]

to be honest, I am really tired of this.
BI releases an update, I have to install ArmaII, ArmaOA and the latest patch to get a clean version....the version I use for play which includes the full patches does not work (always the yellow question mark in the server list)

Is it so complicated to release a server version (the Linux one) with everything included?

This game lives from the community support but I am really get pissed off about the BI update /upgrade policy.

Better:

I uploaded 1 week the gameserver data to linux box via 786kbits DSL.
Every time the files (with filezilla) are on box one or more files are corrupted (don't know why).
Now i make a packing the 14 GB to a tar bzip2 file, half uploading and a patch is here

I buyed sprocket Arma 2 combined version, but only a setup.exe for windows... no wget


But sun is coming up, i work to put the linux dedicated Server fast as possible here for free download nexttime: http://cgl.clanmeets.de

[IceBreakr]

Same problem with out remote server... we're damn tired of updating all files and uploading for hours or days, when we play 3-5 hours per week (training)

[=[A*C]=NicO]

Ok I have to fire up md5sum et let see what has changed... A 3 to 4 hours process, hum well hope this is worth it.
Can we have a changelog, just to help us monitor improvements towards 1.55? Anything new about multithreading ? We rent a CoreI5 750 (4 physical cores) with 8G RAM, but server's FPS oscillate between 10 and 20...
Typical load while playing (1.54 & 1.55) :

Hope this point will be improved!

So I'll make tests as soon as everyone in my team has updated their game, and give you a report : 1.54-5 vs 1.56.

[byteslam]

Better:

I uploaded 1 week the gameserver data to linux box via 786kbits DSL.
Every time the files (with filezilla) are on box one or more files are corrupted (don't know why).
Now i make a packing the 14 GB to a tar bzip2 file, half uploading and a patch is here

I buyed sprocket Arma 2 combined version, but only a setup.exe for windows... no wget


But sun is coming up, i work to put the linux dedicated Server fast as possible here for free download nexttime: http://cgl.clanmeets.de

the upload is solvable with rsync --fuzzy, in fact you have only 116 MB for the last update which are really new.

rsync -avzyh –delete /home/arma/arma2server/* armauser@123.123.123.123:/home/arma/arma2server/

My concern is more the different patches etc. I can not use my current ARMA version with BAF and PMC. the server crashed immediately. you have to remove folders but you need the light patches ... so all the time, BI comes with a new update, I have to do a clean re-installation without anything in it...and my question is, why does the server not come with these 116 MB files (maybe from a p2p source) and that’s it? why is this process so complicated?

[=[A*C]=NicO]

rsync -avzyh –delete /home/arma/arma2server/* armauser@123.123.123.123:/home/arma/arma2server/

Is rsync able to work with lowered case filenames on the server ? The manpage of rsync that "fuzzy" option makes it work with similar filenames if it doesn't find the same. That would be really nice, no need to manually determine which files has changed...

why does the server not come with these 116 MB files (maybe from a p2p source) and that’s it? why is this process so complicated?

Very good question - plus this file could be used for both Windows and Linux dedicated. Clearly we only own personnal xDSL or cable lines, with a very limited upload. Download is ok, but upload....