Arma II Linux Server 1.04 Public Alpha

[Maruk]

UPDATED: Updated Arma II Linux Server 1.04 Public Alpha Build 59962 is available now for download.

Older version:
Arma II Linux Server 1.04 Public Alpha is available now for download.

Please post your feedback to this thread. Thank you in advance for your help with the testing of the Linux server platform for Arma II.

ArmA 2 - Linux Standalone Server 1.04
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Copyrigt (c) 2009 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" 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/ArmA
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. ArmA2 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).

[MadDogX]

Let me be the first to say: w000000t!

[whisper]

great news... But too late, I'm now converted to windows

[Lonestar]

Wow i knew it was on final stage of development but that fast...

Good job

[tom_48_97]

thanks for work !

[HitmanFF]

Excellent news. Will be tested tonight

[TeRp]

Awesome. I know a lot of people who've waited for this. Now the wait is finally over.
Thanks BIS!

[Mr Burns]

Mr Burns runs to the fallout shelter

[Alex72]

Thanks BIS! Good news.

[zyklone]

Thanks Bebul for your hard work!