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[Doc Flabby]

As good as ASSS is sometimes subgame has its advantages. This is how I got it running on the linux.

First you need a working wine installation of wine version 0.9.12 or later. This is in the testing package repositry in debian. to install (assuming you are running a testing version of debian you would type as root)

Code: Show/Hide apt-get install wine

Similarly installing on other linux is there is normally a similar way such as emerge of gentoo

Code: Show/Hide emerge wine

To check if wine is setup correctly switch to a non-root user
type

Code: Show/Hide wine --version

It should display the version number of wine
If that happens all is good. and wine is setup.
The next stage is to create a user in which subgame will run
switch to root (or use sudo) type

Code: Show/Hide adduser

choose a name and password for the user. Im gonna call it subgame, with password docflabbyiscool. I suggest u use a different password
now you need to change to the user of the newly created user so either login as subgame or type

Code: Show/Hide su - subgame

as root
if u type

Code: Show/Hide whoami

it should say
subgame
switch to subgames home folder and run wine to set it up

Code: Show/Hide cd # wine anything

alot of crap and errors will appear on the screen but thats normal wait for it to go away.

Code: Show/Hide mkdir ~/.wine/drive_c/subgame cd ~/.wine/drive_c/subgame

copy all the subgame files in the subgames zip to this directory
now fire up nano or vim or whatever you edit text files with and setup server.ini for subgame. plenty of help is advailable here http://www.shanky.com/server/ and in these forums.
I would recomment changing this section of server.ini so it looks like this to prevent subgame hogging the cpu

Code: Show/Hide [CPU] LoopDelay=0 ProcessMaxTime=4 SleepPerIteration=1 SlowIterationWarningLevel=100 SleepTime=5

once you have done that its time to make sure the permissions are correct
everything in the subgame folder should be chmod 755
and chown subgame.
Once you have done that its time to try the server out.

Code: Show/Hide wineconsole subgame2.exe

this should launch the subgame server. you can then try connecting to it in continuum. To stop it use ctrl+c.
To get the server to launch at start up you need to create a script to run it

Code: Show/Hide cd # touch startsubgame chmod 755 startsubgame

edit the startsubgame file so it looks like this (assuming your subgame user is called subgame)

Code: Show/Hide cd /home/subgame/.wine/drive_c/subgame wine subgame2.exe

save that file
test it works

Code: Show/Hide ./startsubgame

it should start the subgame server
to get it running on startup we use crontab
make sure you are the subgame user (whoami)

Code: Show/Hide crontab -e

add this line

Code: Show/Hide @reboot /home/subgame/startsubgame >> /home/subgame/subgamelog 2>&1

this will create a log file for you of subgame. Now try rebooting the computer to see if subgame starts up

If all is good your subgame server should now be setup on linux

DISCLAIMER: ive only tried this on a debian server using wine version 0.9.12 if this breaks your computer its not my fault
If you want to see it in action PSSF Kitty Girls!!! is a test zone currently running subgame2 on linux in this way.
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[Dr Brain]

I haven't tried it, but I have some cosmetic changes for your howto.

You should use "su - subgame", which has the added benefit of changing to ~.

I'm pretty sure that your cron change will only work with some cron variants.

"cd #" can be replaced by "cd"

Code: Show/Hide mkdir ~/.wine/drive_c/subgame cd ~/.wine/drive_c/subgame                #is this even needed?

can replace:

Code: Show/Hide cd .wine cd drive_c mkdir subgame cd subgame

There are probably things I missed (I'm not sure that adduser is the preferred method, for example), but it's probably not that important.
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[Doc Flabby]

thanks, im a bit of a linux newb tbh

The reason why i use cron is because i couldnt get rc scripts to work (im sure someone with the time and knowledge could) and it was a simple solution to getting subgame to run under a non-root user. I think every crontab supports @reboot. Its an undocumented feature in the linux version of the standard version of cron i think lol.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=cron+@reboot&meta=

This section is required as subgame has to be installed in the wine directory tree for it to work (from my experience neways)

Code: Show/Hide mkdir ~/.wine/drive_c/subgame cd ~/.wine/drive_c/subgame

(ive updated the original how-to)

[Dr Brain]

No, I meant is the cd part really necessary? You could add a wget and an unzip command aftewards and then I'd be ok, but as it is, you just tell them to put it all in there.

[D1st0rt]

Here's the rc script I use for asss if it's any help, might not be done 100% they way it should be, but it works (/home/asss/server is a link to the latest folder which is currently asss-1.4.3)

Code: Show/Hide #!/sbin/runscript depend() {    need net } start() {    ebegin "Starting ASSS"    start-stop-daemon --start --background --chuid asss:asss  --pidfile /home/asss/server/asss.pid --exec /home/asss/server/scripts/run-asss    eend $? } stop() {    ebegin "Stopping ASSS"    start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /home/asss/server/asss.pid    eend $? }

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[Doc Flabby]

opps forgot about this topic.

That script won't work unfortunatly, i coulnt get it to work neways....its probabbly me!

[Dr Brain]

That's a gentoo rc script, so without gentoo, it probably won't work.

[Doc Flabby]

Massive bump i know

http://wiki.minegoboom.com/index.php/MERVBot_script

^^ the script here with some mods i suspect will work, will try it soon

[Animate Dreams]

Erm.
I get to the part where you're supposed to do
cd #
wine

And apparently wine is supposed to do something OTHER than:

Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...] Run the specified program
wine --help Display this help and exit
wine --version Output version information and exit

But that's all it does. The subsequent step of making a new directory was just giving me errors:

[billerman@vps ~]$ mkdir ~/.wine/drive_c/billerman
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/billerman/.wine/drive_c/billerman': No such file or directory


Which may be because Wine hasn't done what you expected it would do in the previous step. So, um... got any ideas?

[Doc Flabby]

ah you found a mistake - ive corrected it in my post

you need to type

Code: Show/Hide wine anything

not wine

just to get wine to set its self up and create the correct folders.