hello!

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

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

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

xqf? webmin plugin?

[TSA] Psychiccyberfreak wrote: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.

Cinquero wrote: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

thx!

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?

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

Cinquero wrote: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...

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.

esteel wrote: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.

doesn't the Linux kernel have built in support for text mode VNC now?

[TSA] Psychiccyberfreak wrote:doesn't the Linux kernel have built in support for text mode VNC now?

Why would you need that when there is ssh?

[TSA] Psychiccyberfreak wrote:doesn't the Linux kernel have built in support for text mode VNC now?

Not that i know of.. and as KadaverJack said.. there is no need for it.
Maybe you mean the switching between consoles with Alt-f1 to alt-f12 but thats a totally other thing.

esteel wrote: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.

No, I want to reconfigure and control it during operation. rcon is quite nice for that, but I'm missing a feature that can tell me about the current game state (running or finished etc.)

well screen does allow that. But there is just no way to findout what mapcfg was loaded last..