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Quake III Arena dedicated server for Debian
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Running the server via the init script
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The quake3-server init script runs a dedicated server as the user
"Debian-quake3". This is a simple setup suitable for running one server
on a machine; by default it will cycle through the standard
Quake III Arena deathmatch maps.
The Debian-quake3 user's home directory is /var/games/quake3-server, so you
can find Quake III files in the /var/games/quake3-server/.q3a directory.
By default, the init script will use
/usr/share/games/quake3/baseq3/debian_server.cfg, which is a symlink to
/etc/quake3-server/server.cfg. You can edit this file, or put an alternative
configuration in /var/games/quake3-server/.q3a/baseq3 and change
/etc/default/quake3-server to exec that.
Disabling the init script
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To disable the init script, use the facilities provided by your init system.
For instance, under sysvinit, use
update-rc.d quake3-server disable
or under systemd, use
ln -s /dev/null /etc/systemd/system/quake3-server.service
Changing the value of the START_DAEMON variable in
/etc/default/quake3-server is deprecated. Please leave it set to
"unless-disabled-by-upgrade".
Running the server with cron and screen
---------------------------------------
One alternative way to run the server is to run it in a screen(1) session
from a cron @reboot action. This can be used to run multiple instances
of the server; you'll need to set a different net_port on each server after
the first, and it's safest to give each server a unique fs_homepath so they
don't overwrite each other's configuration files.
To do this, you could put something like this in the Debian-quake3 user's
crontab (don't break the long lines!):
@reboot screen -d -m -S ffa /usr/games/quake3-server +set fs_homepath /var/games/quake3-server/ffa +exec ffa.config
@reboot screen -d -m -S ctf /usr/games/quake3-server +set fs_homepath /var/games/quake3-server/ctf +set net_port 54321 +exec ctf.config
or in /etc/crontab or a file in /etc/cron.d:
@reboot Debian-quake3 screen -d -m -S ffa /usr/games/quake3-server +set fs_homepath /var/games/quake3-server/ffa +exec ffa.config
@reboot Debian-quake3 screen -d -m -S ctf /usr/games/quake3-server +set fs_homepath /var/games/quake3-server/ctf +set net_port 54321 +exec ctf.config
If you do that, you can access the servers' consoles by attaching a screen
session to them:
sudo -u Debian-quake3 screen -r ffa
sudo -u Debian-quake3 screen -r ctf
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