OpenArena dedicated server for Debian ===================================== Running one server instance --------------------------- The openarena-server init script runs a dedicated server as the user "Debian-openarena". This is a simple setup suitable for running one server on a machine; by default it will run a deathmatch server. The Debian-openarena user's home directory is /var/games/openarena-server, and the equivalent of ~/.openarena for the default server is /var/games/openarena-server/server.oa. By default, the init script will use etc/openarena-server/server.cfg, which is a symlink to /etc/openarena-server/server.cfg. You can edit this file, or put an alternative configuration in /var/games/openarena-server/server.oa/baseoa and change /etc/default/openarena-server to exec that. The whole /etc/openarena-server directory is symlinked into the engine's search path as etc/openarena-server, so you can place files there and exec them with commands like "/exec etc/openarena-server/ctf.cfg". The server can be managed in the usual way, e.g. via service(8) and update-rc.d(8) commands like service openarena-server stop service openarena-server start update-rc.d openarena-server disable update-rc.d openarena-server enable which should work for all of Debian's supported init systems. Running multiple server instances with systemd ---------------------------------------------- Under systemd, openarena-server supports additional instances of the server, so you can run a deathmatch server and a Capture the Flag server, or a vanilla OpenArena server and an Excessive Plus server. Each instance openarena-server@INSTANCE.service has configuration and state in /var/games/openarena-server/INSTANCE.oa, and will execute /etc/openarena-server/INSTANCE.cfg on startup. To set a parameter that can only be given on the command line, such as fs_game or net_port, you can create /etc/default/openarena-server@INSTANCE or a systemd "drop-in" file, and set DAEMON_OPTS there. Setting a unique net_port for each server is recommended: if you do not, each server will try ports above its configured net_port until it finds one that is not in use, so the mapping between servers and ports will be arbitrary. The instance name "server" cannot be used without disabling and stopping openarena-server.service, since it shares its configuration with that service. For instance, these shell commands (as root) would set up a Capture the Flag server on port 27970: cat > /etc/default/openarena-server@ctf DAEMON_OPTS="+set net_port 27970" EOF cat > /etc/openarena-server/ctf.cfg <