Recurring Problem

[gaeorn]

Originally Posted by rainwalkerx

Wow, looks like you've got this solved, AndMetal. 15 Months vs. 24 Hours; you truly are an expert!

Although I'm not exactly clear on what I should change. Do I need to change my symlink commands or do I need to change my ./start script? And what should they be changed to?

Thanks a ton!

rainwalker

These commands should correct world being a directory.

mv world world.dir
mv world.dir/world .
rmdir world.dir

[rainwalkerx]

Thanks, gaeorn. The third command you suggested didn't work; it said "rmdir: failed to remove `world.dir': Directory not empty". I tried to run it anyway and it went farther this time but resulted in a permission denied error for ./eqlaunch.

I think I understood your meaning, though. Now I've changed the eqlaunch, world, and zone directories to eqlaunch.dir, world.dir, and zone.dir and copied their three executables (eqlaunch, world, and zone) to the server directory. Does that sound right? Am I leaving anything out?

Thanks!

[gaeorn]

That is correct.

One question, is this the directory that you downloaded the source to? If so, that is why there are directories named the same as the executables and they aren't empty. You should put the source code in one directory and use another for the server.

Eg:

/home/main/eqemu/src -> sourcecode goes here
/home/main/eqemu/server -> build the running environment here

You can use any directory names you want. The above is merely examples.

[rainwalkerx]

gaeorn - you hit the nail on the head. I never had any intention of updating the server or database code once I had gotten everything up and running so I always skipped the steps in all of the guides where they said "we'll put our source code into a different directory and make symbolic links so that we can update easily in the future". I thought I was keeping things more simple but I probably complicated them a bit

Anyway, thanks again, so much, for the help. I wasn't kidding when I said that this has been a 15-month struggle. And although I've probably tacked on another 80 hours of labor into getting it working over the last week, it feels pretty good to finally be moving forward.

Thanks,
rainwalker