Stuck on Debian Install Guide ./start

[thepoetwarrior]

Yup, didn't know about that, so now Im moving forward again.

I only got about 10 lines of startup spam, then back to a command prompt. Is the server running? I know how an active server looks like on the Windows version, with text constantly spamming.

Also, I dont see the server in the Login Server list. Is the eqemu_config.xml used or is that file just for windows? Trying to get my first attempt of Linux server to show up on The login server.

Oh, and I found out how to obtain my local IP by going to root and doing ifconfig -a.

Thanks again.

[thepoetwarrior]

Oh crap, I guess it does use the config.xml file... got a double server name up, one for Windows, and the closed one obviously my Linux one.

one error I had was sourcing in my custom database, maybe it need repair, will try again.

No questions for now. Thanks for the friendly help

[thepoetwarrior]

Well, for a while I was able to log in but nobody else could. I guess that means its a router/local ip issue? So I forward the same ports to new local IP for linux, but no good. Tried to reset the router, still no good. So I set the DMZ, which reset the router again, and now a few people can log in. The database is correct for the server version, cause I ported over from windows using same server version number. I dont see the usual text spam in a window when the server is up like Windows Server has, bit unusual for me.

[thepoetwarrior]

Ok, people are in my server now, but they cant cast spells. I have the correct spell files in the correct area, dunno whats wrong.

[thepoetwarrior]

Does the spells_us.txt and spells_en.txt need to be a certain file format for Linux? Spells not loading, and I have them in the correct directory.

[thepoetwarrior]

was max number of spells. Looks like windows server can handle over 10k spells, but Linux server under 10k spells... found out thru experimenting. Good to note differnces between windows/linux. Thanks for reading my self responding thread/topic

[trevius]

Oh crap! You are doing it lol! You should have let me know!

Ok, here are a few tips:

Casting issue should be only for detrimental spells and that is because you didn't install the .map files in your home/eqemu/server/maps directory.

And, you won't see the spam in the window the same as you do in windows. Instead, everything gets logged into separate log files in your /home/eqemu/server/logs directory. So, if you want to watch the spam go by to see if there are any errors, you can do this:

cd /home/eqemu/server/logs
tail -f *.*

And, if you just want to look for errors, you could run this tail command instead:

tail -f *.* | grep ERR

When you start the server, you use the ./start command as you already know. And, when you do a reset, you can shut down the server in game using the #worldshutdown command and then go to your command prompt and run the ./stop command. And you will probably have to use the chmod on the stop command like you did for the start command. Basically, the stop command ends all of the processes and I think clears out RAM and stuff.

One thing to note is that once you have your server running smoothly, you will never need to do another actual reboot of the PC again lol. Only the server needs to be reset every now and then, not the PC itself.

Max number of spells on the server isn't an issue for Windows or Linux. Both server types can use unlimited numbers of spell IDs. It is the client that is limited to 9999 as the max spell ID number. And that doesn't change from a Linux to Windows server.

Lemme know if you have any other issues. Following the wiki isn't too bad really. The only complex part IMO is getting your tools working from another Windows PC on your LAN. But, once you get mysql setup correctly and make an account for the windows PC on your LAN, it isn't bad. I think the worst part for me is always getting Windows and Linux to share files so I can map to the quests directory.