Hi,

is there a way to specify the location of the
dlcache
directory?

The reason is that I would like to have this folder outside the normal Nexiuz data path to be able to use this path with the different Nexuiz versions (2.23, 2.3 test3, 2.3 test4, etc)

Best regards,

dreamteam

I"m not aware of a way to change this on windows.. on linux you could use ~/.nexuiz/data/ or ~/.nexuiz/data/dlcache
Well on windows nt,2000, xp.. you can create a kind of symlink on NTFS filesytems but i never tried to do that..

why u just do not copy it?...

esteel wrote:I"m not aware of a way to change this on windows.. on linux you could use ~/.nexuiz/data/ or ~/.nexuiz/data/dlcache
Well on windows nt,2000, xp.. you can create a kind of symlink on NTFS filesytems but i never tried to do that..

so do I, but wouldn´t it by nice to be able to specify the path name for the dlcache in the settings? Could not be so difficult.


>why u just do not copy it?...
This is the way I am doing it right now, but over the time the amount of data is quite large and than you are in trouble to keep it in sync, that´s why I was thinking the more elegant way is to be able to specify the path for the dlcache.

Best regards,
dreamteam

dreamteam wrote:

esteel wrote:I"m not aware of a way to change this on windows.. on linux you could use ~/.nexuiz/data/ or ~/.nexuiz/data/dlcache
Well on windows nt,2000, xp.. you can create a kind of symlink on NTFS filesytems but i never tried to do that..

so do I, but wouldn´t it by nice to be able to specify the path name for the dlcache in the settings?

Hmm i especially see the usefulness for this on a *nix system with several users, to share the DLcache.

yeah, I can as well... also if you don't want to save every pk3 you get you can use the /tmp/ dir

tChr wrote:Hmm i especially see the usefulness for this on a *nix system with several users, to share the DLcache.

Just create a new directory, make it chmod 1777 and symlink the dlcache there... No problem if you have symlinks
Only windows users have that problem, since there are no symlinks on windows. (at least not for the average user...)

KadaverJack wrote:

tChr wrote:Hmm i especially see the usefulness for this on a *nix system with several users, to share the DLcache.

Just create a new directory, make it chmod 1777 and symlink the dlcache there... No problem if you have symlinks
Only windows users have that problem, since there are no symlinks on windows. (at least not for the average user...)

oh yeah, didn't think about that. still, windows users are left in the dust, we should add this feature...

The problem i see with adding this feature: currently the engine's security restrictions prevent it from reading/writing any files outside the gamedir. If the user is able to change the location of the dlcache directory, a malicious server could do the same and escape the "jail" that way...

Under Vista the dlcache directory can't be written directly to the game directory; it's redirected to the so-called 'virtual store' in the user's directory, i.e. C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Nexuiz. Creating a symbolic link to it can be done using

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mklink

on the command line:

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mklink /J <link> <location of dlcache dir>

The /J stands for 'directory junction.'

Any doubts left that Windows is more user-friendly than UNIX-oid OSs?

Edit: mklink doesn't exist in Windows XP or earlier.

Yes.



To be on topic, a program working like mklink but for XP is available on sysinternals.com.

Sysinternals.com has been acquired by Microsoft in July 2006.

The mklink-like program for Windows 2000 and newer divVerent mentioned can be found under http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Junction.mspx.

[RBI]Karl Ranseier wrote:Sysinternals.com has been acquired by Microsoft in July 2006.

The mklink-like program for Windows 2000 and newer divVerent mentioned can be found under http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Junction.mspx.

Did they serioulsy have to buy third-pary companies to achieve symlinks in their own file system?

tChr wrote:

[RBI]Karl Ranseier wrote:Sysinternals.com has been acquired by Microsoft in July 2006.

The mklink-like program for Windows 2000 and newer divVerent mentioned can be found under http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Junction.mspx.

Did they serioulsy have to buy third-pary companies to achieve symlinks in their own file system?

Essentially yes. NTFS has had symlinks since Windows 2000 (more specifically, since NTFS 5.0); however this functionality was neither well documented nor really exposed in Windows.

Well, they didn't buy sysinternals for THAT, as another mklink-like program is in the resource kit.

Maybe not so much on 1 computer with several users, but think about a family with several people playing Nexuiz, they can share the dlcache folder on a NAS device for example to save bandwidth.

If it is not a family think about several people sharering a a house, etc.

Best regards,

dreamteam

tChr wrote:

dreamteam wrote:

esteel wrote:I"m not aware of a way to change this on windows.. on linux you could use ~/.nexuiz/data/ or ~/.nexuiz/data/dlcache
Well on windows nt,2000, xp.. you can create a kind of symlink on NTFS filesytems but i never tried to do that..

so do I, but wouldn´t it by nice to be able to specify the path name for the dlcache in the settings?

Hmm i especially see the usefulness for this on a *nix system with several users, to share the DLcache.