Server Help

[Donkano]

Okay, I am trying to setup an ASSS server on Linux and I am having difficulties.

I read the README.txt file and it says:

[Solo Ace]

I don't want to be rude (well, that's a lie, I do actually), but now you're really sounding like a "hi I got Linux, fix teh shiate for me"-newbie.

Anyway, as the readme obviously told you, you have to run "bin/asss", not "/Server/Continuum/asss-1.3.6/bin/asss".

How can you expect that a binary for Windows just runs on Linux "out of the box"? That's like telling a cat to fly an airplane.
The biller would have to be compiled for Linux so it can actually run, or you could run it in an emulator (or WINE).

I think you're not ready for this yet, so I'm not going to waste more time on trying to get/write a guide for you, get some more basic Linux knowledge first if you really want this.

[i88gerbils]

Hmm, you get no output at all?

I tried running asss directly from outside of the root asss dir, and it gave an error saying it couldn't find modules.conf file.

I usually run it from the base asss directory (in your case /Server/Continuum/asss-1.3.6/).
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[CypherJF]

<split of topic / too late!> Has anyone gotten Continuum to run with WINE... I mean if they got WoW working, shouldn't a simplier game as Continuum work? o.O
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[Donkano (Lazy)]

root@linux:/Server/Continuum/asss-1.3.6# ./scripts/run-asss
This directory doesn't look like a valid zone directory.

How do I make it valid?

[Dr Brain]

cd zone1
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[Donkano (Lazy)]

root@linux:/Server/Continuum/asss# cd zone1
-bash: cd: zone1: No such file or directory

cd is a directory changing command "man cd".
I don't quite understand what you mean by "cd zone1", Dr Brain.

[Solo Ace]

Haha, yeah let's tell Brain what "cd" does.

He means the script has to be called from the zone directory, obviously.

Also, as a general hint: don't run stuff as root.

[Dr Brain]

If you were getting your stuff from cvs/monotone, then you would need to change directory (yes, cd!) to zone1 or a zone directory of your own creation.

[i88gerbils]

wtf are you talking about?

If you don't know how to do Tech Support please don't even fucking try.

[Donkano]

[i88gerbils]

Try following this.

Remember, if the program stops somewhere in module load you might not have python/mysql/bdb correctly installed.

In fact, I'd start over... wipe what you have, download this, untar, and the follow directions from there.

[Dr Brain]

[Donkano (Lazy)]

Ok, I took I88gerbil's advice and I redownloaded and redid it all, the steps I took:
placed it to / and extracted it. Then I went to /asss-1.4.0/src and gave the command of: make
It had multiple errors in it.

Now what do I do?

[i88gerbils]

It's perfectly obvious you didn't have a clue what the guy's situtaion was. That's why, when you are trying to Support someone you ask questions. Dr. Brain obviously doesn't know how to do this.

[Donkano (Lazy)]

[Donkano (Lazy)]

/me goes to change the permissions of /asss-1.4.0 to set the owner name as donkano and switch account.

[Dr Brain]

[Dr Brain]

[Donkano]

[Dr Brain]

I've never used slackware. Perhaps a google search would be the best idea. That is unless someone else knows how to do it.

[Donkano]

Okay, since I can't do this on my own (obviously), I'll wait 3 days to see if anyone knows how to get me on my way. If not, I will switch back to SubGame with Catid's biller.

[Grelminar]

Hold on a minute. Why are you trying to compile asss? The 1.4.0 package from the web site includes perfectly good linux binaries. You should only need to compile it yourself if you want to make changes to the core modules, or if for some reason, the included binaries won't work on your system. I have no idea why the wiki page on "Server Setup" describes how to build asss, when most users probably won't need to do that.

You should just extract the 1.4.0 tarball, cd into that directory, and run "bin/asss".

[Donkano]

[i88gerbils]

Can you actually read or do you only quote others & make illogical replies?

Let's review Dr. Brain's mistakes as a lesson for those who actually read, but I doubt they need one:

1. "cd zone1"

This is a poor start when trying to help. The correct thing to do, as I stated before is to ask questions to sort out the situation. The sentence above is an example of assuming the situation instead of providing practical & contextual advice.

2. Explanation of 1 after someone tries it & doesn't get very far.

This explains the incompetence of #1 even more so by suggesting that the poster was unable to comprehend the situation.

3. Suggesting upgrading software from a distro-specific method.

The incompetence of the poster was further revealed after the advice seeker mentioned they were on Slackware, not Gentoo.

Okay, so now that we know how not to help out with examples from Dr. Brain, we can figure out how to correctly get Donkano up & running w/ asss.

Grelminar did a good job in suggesting to try the binaries instead. Another good example is by making sure our friend can follow the wiki instructions for Server Setup, which I noted above.

Our final lesson is that, through the 3 examples of bad supporting above, is to not confuse a user w/ all sorts of unnecessary information as seen in this reply by Donakano, "Okay, since I can't do this on my own (obviously), I'll wait 3 days to see if anyone knows how to get me on my way. If not, I will switch back to SubGamOkay, since I can't do this on my own (obviously), I'll wait 3 days to see if anyone knows how to get me on my way. If not, I will switch back to SubGame with Catid's biller.e with Catid's biller." If this were a business, we would have just given a refund. Thanks Dr. Brain.