IP and bad rcon command logging

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Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:40 pm

  • 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
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:02 pm

  • 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.
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:10 pm

  • 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
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Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:22 pm

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