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Arma 2 Linux - Standalone Server 1.08

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Arma 2 (the original game) - Linux Standalone Server 1.08 is available now.

Arma 2 Linux Standalone Server 1.08

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Copyrigt © 2010 Bohemia Interactive Studio. All rights reserved.

For more information please visit

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA:_Dedicated_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" directory from Windows

to some Linux-directory (arma2). 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/arma2 will be good, /home/bob/ArmA2

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 arma2 directory. Unpack and install it with commands:

arma2$ tar -xjf server-x.xx.tar.bz2

arma2$ ./install

Watch the messages - they will inform you whether your installation

is successful.

4. Dedicated server can be started in foreground:

arma2$ ./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. ArmA2server 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).

Edited by Dwarden
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I really am lucky :)

I've just entered the ARMA2 world and the final linux DS has just been released.

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How do we configure difficulty settings on Linux Server ?

I see the default "player" folder in arma 2 directory and inside it the A2OA profile. But if i change it to get my own default difficulty settings and then reboot the server, the game itself erase all the configuration in it.

And all that is left is :

version=1;

blood=1;

viewDistance=1600;

terrainGrid=10;

singleVoice=0;

gamma=1;

brightness=1;

soundEnableEAX=1;

soundEnableHW=0;

volumeCD=5;

volumeFX=5;

volumeSpeech=5;

No more settings for regular, veteran, etc..

Any idea why ?

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