Stacking with ChefChelios

Chef Chelios and I stacked in the Hurnscald mines this evening killing a slew of spiders and black scorpions, enough to increase my experience by 25% over a period of about 15 minutes - less time than I'd spent to get 5% experience by myself - stacking really helps!

I also finally got magic working correctly on my own server: auldsbel.dyndns.org. Now the last thing I have to correct is changing the updates from the main server to my own updates. I've kept them for the moment while I work on other things.

I've set up another development server locally to test scripts out on. The "Captain Easton" NPC in Tulimshar on my server is the result of this. I'm continuing to develop the Captain, swatting bugs on the development server before pushing them to the main server.

My Server is working!

So I set up a TMW server and it's working/facing the Internet. I had quite a bit of help from meway getting it going and more help from him getting ladmin working. Thanks to Kage for the hint regarding I.P. addresses and managing certain users.

The screenshot above shows when I first set up my server. I ran into some user problems as I mentioned above, but they're fixed now, at least for the time being.

I'm getting game updates from meway, who also runs a tmw server: meway.dyndns.org.

Setting up an eAthena Server

So the past couple of days I've spent my time building a server to run an eAthena TMW server on. The hardware is as follows:

IBM eServer 220 1.1GHz Pentium III Xeon CPU, 256MB Registered ECC RAM, 2 x 18GB 15,000 RPM UW-SCSI Hard Drives.

I chose Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 for the operating system because it seemed to run best on the hardware.

After a number of bumps and false starts I finally managed to get eAthena on the system and all the servers compiled (including the mapserver).

Unfortunately,I still cannot connect to the server. I can registered new accounts, but not connect to the character server after. I tracked the problem down in the log files and the account.txt file.

What appears to be happening is that the account.txt file is being overwritten so the server account and password can never connect to the character server. Here's an example of the overwritten accounts.txt file. Previously I'd set account 0 with the server connect user name and password. It's been overwritten by this.

2000000 myname  !=5auo$e243bacb2e422cd08b8df957 2010-11-03 03:22:30.934 M       1       0       a@a.com -       0       10.0.0.4        !       0
2000001 myname2 !5[tVd$cca6049992e2c72a225f5fe8 2010-11-03 03:24:47.929 M       1       0       a@a.com -       0       10.0.0.4        !       0
2000002 myname3 !Yt:x}$9051c4dbc4f7201e45a06445 2010-11-03 03:25:58.725 M       1       0       a@a.com -       0       10.0.0.4        !       0
2000003 abc123  !KhRF3$e9244bbe8d67528ff0ec6a7d 2010-11-03 12:10:18.941 M       1       0       a@a.com -       0       10.0.0.4        !       0
2000004 Test    !qv5sK$57523301b6851cc1fbbf7a19 2010-11-03 12:38:01.694 M       1       0       a@a.com -       0       10.0.0.4        !       0
2000005 %newid%

eAthena server confusion

So I checked out the eAthena server to our mediacentre PC in hopes of trying some things locally, got everything set up and ran the eathena.sh start script only to get:

charm@mediacentre:~/eathena$ ./eathena.sh start
Starting eathena monitor...
./eathena.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

Not sure what's going on here. Think it's the paths and that I've messed up somewhere. Both git repos were put in: /home/charm under their respective directories. I set up a symbolic link to tmwserver:

ln -s eathena-data/ tmwserver

And that's in ~ (home)... so eathena.sh should be looking at it. Wondering if I was suppose to check out the eathena-data directory in the eathena directory and symbolically link it to eathena/eathena-data? Hmmn... better to move on to something fun for the moment, the cocoons await.