ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead - Linux Server beta 1.62.98099

[Dwarden 1125]

ftp://downloads.bistudio.com/arma2.com/update/a2oa-server-1.62.98099.tar.bz2

ftp://downloads.bistudio.com/arma2.com/update/a2oa-server-1.62.98099.tar.bz2

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RC32: C4872E02

MD5: B9771D788E84E3E8387E6F3C68CE958E

SHA-1: BDC479265091386CA7F42B5E7F808EA5DC663326

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?141135-ARMA-2-Operation-Arrowhead-Linux-Server-beta-1-62-97755

[Overlord 0]

Thank you Sir, and on a Wednesday :)

[=[TTK]= memphis007 10]

Thank you too :p

[totalboffin 10]

Once again, great to see all the development work on the Linux builds. We have two very happy dedicated linux servers ;-)

Keep up the good work!

[magaman 1]

Yes, nice to have linux servers back. TY

[Overlord 0]

I got "Cannot evaluate 'ReadAndWrite' - no file" in my log now (came with the previous release).

Anyone got a clue what it is about?

Edited October 19, 2012 by Overlord
typso

[=[TTK]= memphis007 10]

Still have :

NetServer::finishDestroyPlayer(631972218): DESTROY immediately after CREATE, both cancelled

And server is crashing right after that.

[Overlord 0]

= Memphis007;2242612']Still have :

And server is crashing right after that.

Mission related? Or is it random, regardless with or without AIs?

[=[TTK]= memphis007 10]

Perhaps, don't now for sure, it happens on [otea]domination_2_60zc_west (mission is based on Xeno domination) randomly

[m4d3l 1]

is it possible to compile with lower version of GLIBCXX? Centos only support GLIBCXX_3.4.13 and lower.

I actullay got this error :

./server: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (required by ./server)

[dontknowhow 33]

is it possible to compile with lower version of GLIBCXX? Centos only support GLIBCXX_3.4.13 and lower.

because centos uses ancient packages. A new version of gcc should solve the problem. If you can't find it try to build one yourself.

[Jigsor 176]

Linux Server beta 1.62.98099 is purring along fine so far.

2 Combined Operation games running and 1 Arma 2 game running.

Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS 64amd

To get CO working without having to install unneeded 32bit libs, I've installed the following.

1. lib32stdc++6 (which will also add these three dependencies: gcc-4.6-base, lib32gcc1, libc6-i386)

2. lib32z1

3. libz.so.1.2.3.4 (I found this was required for the non CO Arma 2 server.

Note a2-server-1.11.87389 server binary used for Arma 2 non CO

Mileage could vary on dependencies. Theses are all the additional libraries I needed on top of my base installation.

I'm not sure, if this affects it or not, but my base included a semi stripped Unity desktop which I only need to allow for lightdm to use XFCE as my desktop. I am remote controlling with gui through VNC over putty. Sure makes life easier.

Thanks again BI for the Linux support.

Edited October 29, 2012 by Jigsor

[tanaka 0]

the good thing will be to get a addons to read/write on mysql :)

During a long time i post many thing about my impossibility to launch a linux server. For now, it is solved.

Only one thing to say LOWER case all thing, also IN pbo...