ArmA Dedicated Server

[Maruk]

Most detailed available information about usage of ArmA Dedicated Server software can be found at
ArmA Wiki Page


The latest currently available version of Win32 Server is 1.05.5136 and it is available in patch 1.05 and you can also download it from BI ftp server.

Linux version of standalone server is under development and there's no fixed release date set yet.

[Maruk]

Windows 32 Dedicated Server for ArmA: Combat Operations version 1.06 is available from Bohemia Interactive's ftp server

Note: This server is compatible only with US version of the game 1.06 and it is not compatible with previous releases 1.00-1.05

[Maruk]

Most detailed available information about usage of ArmA Dedicated Server software can be found at
ArmA Wiki Page

Beta of dedicated server for Linux version 1.08.5064 is available from
BI ftp server.

Share your observations and problems on the forums.

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ArmA - Linux Standalone Server 1.08
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Copyrigt © 2007 Bohemia Interactive Studio. All rights reserved.

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


Installation instructions:
==========================

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 server successfully. Caching of DNS would be sufficient.

1b. ArmA Server is using shared libraries. w3c-libwww library must
be installed on your system.

2. Copy the whole "ArmA" directory from Windows
to some Linux-directory (ArmA). 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 ArmA directory name
(/home/bob/arma will be good, /home/bob/ArmA
may cause some troubles).
ArmA directory should contain subdirectories "Addons", "Bin",
"Campaigns", etc.

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

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

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

4. Dedicated server can be started in foreground:

arma$ ./server

Or in background:

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

5. Running server can be stopped by executing:

&#036; kill -s SIGINT <pid>

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

6. ArmA server has a feature: command-line parameter
"-pid=<pid_file>". It causes creation of <pid_file> with
PID of root ArmA process. If IP port specified in "-port=<nn>"
parameter is busy (in usage), ArmA will terminate immediately
and <pid_file> won&#39;t be written..

7. The "armaserver" script is provided for automatic server
start/restart/status query/etc. Please be sure to edit
CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS in lines 12 to 18 &#33;
After this is done, install (hard-link?) the script into
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/armaserver" file. After that it can be managed
by "chkconfig" (see info/man).

[Maruk]

Most detailed available information about usage of ArmA Dedicated Server software can be found at
ArmA Wiki Page

New beta of dedicated server for Windows version 1.08.5169 is available from
BI ftp server.

Quote[/b] ]5164 - Fixed: Handling of invalid CD keys on dedicated servers improved
5164 - Fixed: Signature verification timeout significantly relaxed.
5164 - Fixed: assignToAirport did the same as landAt. Now it assigns for purpose of future getout commands.
5164 - Fixed: MP: Player driving motorcycle could die suddenly with no apparent reason.
5164 - Fixed: spinning in select() on Linux Dedicated Server

Edit: updated version. typo in the version number.
Edit: removed changelog entries which apply to clients only, as they are not relevant here