alien-arena-server for Debian ------------------------------------- To run the Alien Arena 2008 server, run . is a script that is used to call other scripts useful in running a Alien Arena 2008 dedicated server. The four main scripts it can call are 'launch-server', 'kill-runaway-crded', 'svstat', and 'rcon'. It can also be used to call the 'crded' (dedicated server) binary itself. 'launch-server' is a script designed to emulate running crded as a persisant service under linux. To use 'launch-server', use the option -s or --service . /usr/share/games/alien-arena/arena/server.cfg is a suitable that is already installed with the alien-arena-data package. can be specified as a path inside the .alien-arena directory which is a directory inside your home directory <$HOME/.alien-arena>. can also be specified by its full path in this system. 'kill-runaway-crded' is a script that kills all running sessions of crded (the dedicated server binary) and rm any pid files that may have been created. To use 'kill-runaway-crded', use the option -k or --kill. This option is useful when a server session was started as a service. 'svstat' is a ruby script used to query local servers. To use 'svstat', use the option -Q or --query. 'rcon' is a ruby script used to pass rcon commands to servers. To use 'rcon', use the option -r password or --rcon password . is the IP address and port used by the server. "password" is the password on the server. is any rcon commands to pass to the server. To call the 'crded' binary itself, just run alien-arena-server. There's also an option available to disable console output when calling the 'crded' binary. Use the -q or --quiet option to disable console output. The -h or --help option is available for help on using the alien-arena-server script. The alien-arena-server(6) man page is available as well for help on using the alien-arena-server script. Alien Arena 2008 uses Quake 2 based console codes. A listing of these codes can be found . Most of the codes described at this webpage will work for Alien Arena 2008.