ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead - Linux Server beta 1.62.97755

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ftp://downloads.bistudio.com/arma2.com/update/a2oa-server-1.62.97755.tar.bz2

ftp://downloads.bistudio.com/arma2.com/update/a2oa-server-1.62.97755.tar.bz2

CRC32: 33F41A64

MD5: A8F148774E42EA06472C1F404AAC6C09

SHA-1: E99D42F814A00BAA2E877B260C193732004B54F6

Note that it requires Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead data to be updated to version 1.62 first in order to run properly.

ideal to combine with latest OA beta client:

Please provide us with feedback to this topic.

* this version brings linux in sync with actual windows server improvements and ai/mp fixes ...

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA:_Dedicated_Server

Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead - Linux Standalone Server 1.62

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Copyrigt © 2010 Bohemia Interactive Studio. All rights reserved.

For more information please visit

http//community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA:_Dedicated_Server

Installation instructions:

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1. Following programs must have been installed on your Linux-box:

tar, gcc. Optional: md5sum (for setup integrity check)

1a. On some verions of Linux (this was reported for RedHat 9

and Gentoo linux 2.4.20) the NSCD deamon must be installed to

run ArmA 2 server successfully. Caching of DNS would be sufficient.

2. Copy the whole "ArmA 2 Operation Arrowhead" directory from Windows

to some Linux-directory (arma2arrowhead). DON'T DO ANY DATA CONVERSIONS

(even "dos2unix" translation of text files is not necessary).

Example: you can use PKZIP (WinZip, PowerArchiver, etc.) on

Windows and "unzip" on Linux.

Don't use upper case letters in the ArmA2 directory name

(/home/bob/arma2arrowhead will be good, /home/bob/ArmA2ArrowHead

may cause some troubles).

ArmA2 directory should contain subdirectories "Addons", "Bin",

"Campaigns", etc.

3. Copy the "server-x.xx.tar.gz" (x.xx is version number) file into

the arma2arrowhead directory. Unpack and install it with commands:

arma2arrowhead$ tar -xjf server-x.xx.tar.bz2

arma2arrowhead$ ./install

Watch the messages - they will inform you whether your installation

is successful.

4. Dedicated server can be started in foreground:

arma2arrowhead$ ./server

Or in background:

o$ nohup ./server > out.txt 2> err.txt &

[1] <pid>

5. Running server can be stopped by executing:

$ kill -s SIGINT <pid>

Where <pid> is process-id of mother server thread (printed out in

"nohup" command).

6. ArmA2 ArrowHead server has a feature: command-line parameter

"-pid=<pid_file>". It causes creation of <pid_file> with

PID of root ArmA2 process. If IP port specified in "-port=<nn>"

parameter is busy (in usage), ArmA2 will terminate immediately

and <pid_file> won't be written..

7. The "arma2server" script is provided for automatic server

start/restart/status query/etc. Please be sure to edit

CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS in lines 12 to 18 !

After this is done, install (hard-link?) the script into

"/etc/rc.d/init.d/arma2server" file. After that it can be managed

by "chkconfig" (see info/man).

previous thread about 1.62.xxxxx linux server :

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?140355-ARMA-2-Operation-Arrowhead-Linux-Server-beta-1-62-97240

[Overlord 0]

Yippi, Friday

[edit]

Nothing wrong with this one yet ;)

Edited October 6, 2012 by Overlord
Case solved

[Overlord 0]

Server been running for seven days, no issues yet (one crash [solved]), what more can we wish for? :)