IP and bad rcon command logging

[John Galt]

Hi all,

Two quick questions:

1) How does one turn on IP logging on the server? I know 'status' will give you the IPs but as I'm often not around to babysit, I'd like to keep a log so that I can at least catch asshats after the fact.

2) Bad rcon attempts aren't being sent to console. How can I turn that on?

Thanks

[John Galt]

I haven't solved # 2 yet, but I set a simple cron job using the external rcon client to do 'status' calls at intervals. I guess that's the best I can get for ip logging, eh?

Does anyone know why unsuccessful rcon attempts aren't logged?

Thanks.

[divVerent]

Two reasons:

- you could too easily spam the log file with that to get REALLY large

- it wouldn't contain any useful information, as the source IP of UDP packets (like rcon) can be easily faked

[John Galt]

That all makes sense, divVerent -- thanks for the quick response.