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Doc Flabby · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:20 am Post subject: ssbilling2 for linux (ported)

Linux port of "SubSpace Billing Server 2 Release 11j" by CatId

(still compiles in windows

using dev-c++)

Now you can run a udp biller on linux.

An entire ASSS + Biller setup without wine or windows - oh my!

Only tested on debian linux etch. (probably has a few bugs)

Known Issues:

Netban text can only be changed by editing the subbill.ini (in game doesnt work)

Difficult to compile. See the makefile i enclose. Because CatId used some horrible non-standard c++ which i only vaguly understand it chokes on it if you compile with gcc > 4. Therefore you must compile using gcc 3.4. Then link using your normal g++ lib otherwise pthreads won't work.

I've included the binary.

EDIT: PS don't even think about turning encryption on. 20+ lines of assembly is to try and port was much for me

You're welcome to have a go though.

Please check further down the page for an updated version that works with gcc 4.3
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L.C. · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:35 pm Post subject:

FreeBSD 6.1

BDwinsAlt · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:52 pm Post subject:

Runs fine on Ubuntu Linux. FreeBSD is different from Linux, so that's probably why. I bet you could tweak something to make it work. Try compiling it using FreeBSD.

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:17 am Post subject:

Or you can use Linux Binary Compatibility on FreeBSD.

Doc Flabby · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:01 am Post subject:

i suggest recompiling for your platform, i have included the makefiles..

It would simpley be a matter of typing

"make" in the source directory and seeing if it worked.

L.C. · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject:

I could not recompile this (using GCC 3.4.4), thus could not launch it.

I tried compiling it with both the 'make' and 'gmake' commands.

BDwinsAlt · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject:

Hmm. Is there any output that you could copy and paste when you try to compile. When I type make -v I get:
GNU Make 3.81

L.C. · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:24 pm Post subject:

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-(qwerty@shadow)-(08:22:48)-
-(~)- cd subspace
-(qwerty@shadow)-(08:22:52)-
-(~/subspace)- cd ssbilling2
-(qwerty@shadow)-(08:22:54)-
-(~/subspace/ssbilling2)- make -v
make: don't know how to make all-before. Stop
-(qwerty@shadow)-(08:22:57)-
-(~/subspace/ssbilling2)- make
make: don't know how to make all-before. Stop
-(qwerty@shadow)-(08:23:00)-
-(~/subspace/ssbilling2)- make --version
make: illegal option -- -
usage: make [-BPSXeiknqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable]
[-d flags] [-E variable] [-f makefile] [-I directory]
[-j max_jobs] [-m directory] [-V variable]
[variable=value] [target ...]
-(qwerty@shadow)-(08:23:05)-
-(~/subspace/ssbilling2)- gmake --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i386-portbld-freebsd6.1
-(qwerty@shadow)-(08:23:17)-
-(~/subspace/ssbilling2)-
-(qwerty@shadow)-(08:23:27)-
-(~/subspace/ssbilling2)- gmake
gcc-3.4 -c main.cpp -o main.o -D_REENTRANT
gmake: gcc-3.4: Command not found
gmake: *** [main.o] Error 127
-(qwerty@shadow)-(08:24:20)-
-(~/subspace/ssbilling2)-

Doc Flabby · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:01 am Post subject:

BDwinsAlt · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject:

All I had to do was type make. Look in your package manager (if there is one) and download it. I have it installed on my computer already.

L.C. · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject:

Gave up on FreeBSD. Works fine on Linux and is functional. Took me a while to figure out that when I closed my console it also ended the ssbilling2 process.

I don't think I'll be running a Public Biller again until a decent Linux-based biller that can handle this or cluster with SSC (or something) would be possible.

Doc Flabby · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject:

You need to run it as a background process to get it to stay open after you close the terminal. Use the &. Similarly with the directory server.

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./ssbilling2-linux&

Glad its working for everyone

L.C. · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject:

Bleh. I just opened a screen and ran it. I think I'm doing that for the ddirserv, but I noticed that the ddirserv will still continue running regardless of adding the & to it.

If you add & to the end of any binary when executing it, it makes that binary run as a background?

Doc Flabby · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject:

The dirserver is coded alot nicer (based on mervbot) than the biller, which is probably why it works wthout the &

L.C. · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject:

I did notice one minor bug or inconsistency with the mirroring function though. Does it only check the first IP/address unless the first given one doesn't work?

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[Core]
PacketSilenceLimit=2000
MaxReliableInTransit=3
ChunkSize=496
ClusterMode=0
MaxHosts=20

[CPU]
SlowIteration=300
IterationSleepTime=5

[Zone]
SweepTime=500
DropLimit=10
ReclaimDelay=24
InitialHighPing=300

[Directory]
IP=ssdir.playsubspace.com dir.cz.sshq.net sscentral.sscuservers.net
DownloadTime=5
StatsFile=stats.txt
StatsWriteMinutes=5

That's what I have.

EDIT :: Running ./ddirserv& didn't make it run in the background. It stopped as soon as I closed Putty. So I reconnected and started a screen to run it. Works fine for me if just use screen.

Doc Flabby · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:20 am Post subject:

Goldeye · Novice Gender: Joined: Dec 15 2003 Posts: 53 Offline

./ssbilling2& will normally not run once you logout of the shell.
You need to make it a daemon to do that.
Google daemonize.c, someone put it together so you don't have to write it yourself.

CypherJF · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject:

I don't know about this app but even with my biller I have to do what doc said; type "exit" before you close putty.
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SSLamby · Newbie Joined: Aug 29 2008 Posts: 1 Offline

I have improved it a little bit to at least compile with gcc 4.3.1.

Basically what I did was to:
> #include <algorithm> // in linkedlist.h to solve the std::reverse error.
> lift out the CallRecvThread and CallResendThread from it's class, in order to make them accessible as pointers for pthread.
>Add a bunch of prototypes for the packet handler functions (HandleSpecial etc.) in both rpc.h and declares.h
>Fixing some warningns due to missing const keywords.

I hope this did not introduce or uncover any new bugs, it appears to work but I have no reference to compare with.

[edit, removed binaries from tarball]

Doc Flabby · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:38 am Post subject:

Thanks for your contribution. Hopefully someone will find it useful!

The original windows (reference) source is here: http://www.mervbot.com/files/subbill.zip

L.C. · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:30 am Post subject:

CypherJF · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:43 pm Post subject:

I found out using the command "nohup cmd &" does wonders. See the man page for nohup.