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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: 57 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.

fatrolls · Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 12:19 am Post subject: problem with this biller

I tried running this on centos runs properly but when it's connecting to ASSS using ssc_billing i get the following errors..

Invalid login from..?

if I try to connect with just billing without ssc_billing that gives me connection refused error.

This is how the biller looks with ssc_billing enabled

What must i do.

fatrolls · Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 6:29 pm Post subject:

Fixed

in modules.conf pick

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ssc_billing
and make
billing to
;billing

then in global.conf set
Under

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[Billing]
ServerID=27015
GroupId=1
ScoreID=27015

SpaceHiker · Newbie Joined: Apr 05 2014 Posts: 3 Offline

For me, this compiles and executes without errors or warnings, creates the .dat files, allows zone servers to connect, and "L" shows the host list.

But, it does not allow users to log in (failed to connect to server).

Any ideas?

my gcc is 4.4.6 and my distro is amazon's CentOS variant (Amazon Linux AMI release 2013.03).