remote control

[Cinquero]

hello!

I want to control my nexuiz server remotely, preferably using a perl script. Is that possible? Attach to the server console via UDP?

[Cinquero]

http://search.cpan.org/~achen/POE-Compo ... 23/Rcon.pm

At a first glance, that looks quite nice. Any other recommendations?

[Psychcf]

xqf? webmin plugin?

[Cinquero]

xqf? webmin plugin?

Not really. I need at least to control my server from the command line. Unfortunately, the CPAN rcon module does not seem to work with nexuiz.

[KadaverJack]

Not really. I need at least to control my server from the command line. Unfortunately, the CPAN rcon module does not seem to work with nexuiz.

Probably because Nexuiz uses qw-style rcno, not the q3 protocoll.
However divVerent wrote a wrapper in ruby, that enables other applications to connect via unix socket amongst other things.
If you want to code something yourself in ruby, here's a quick'n'dirty sample how rcon works in Nexuiz: http://kadaverjack.planetnexuiz.de/tmp/rcon.zip

[Cinquero]

thx!

[Cinquero]

is it possible that one cannot pipe the entire result of "cvarlist" though rcon? Is that a server-side issue? Possibly related to MTU/UDP?

[Psychcf]

most of the time I just use VNC, even though the server is in my basement, it's cold down there and I don't feel like standing for so long

[KadaverJack]

is it possible that one cannot pipe the entire result of "cvarlist" though rcon? Is that a server-side issue? Possibly related to MTU/UDP?

rcon works with single UDP packets, which may not exceed 65.527 bytes. When I save the output of cvarlist to a file, it's about 81kb, so so it clearly won't fit into an UDP package...

[esteel]

Well if you are the only one administering that server (and if its running on linux) you can also just use the program 'screen' for this. Its like vnc for text mode programs.