Installing Server

From Goldeneye: Source

1 Installing (Windows)
2 Installing (Linux)
3 GE:S Server Cvars
4 List of mirrors

Installing (Windows)

Downloading

First of all you need the HLDS Update Tool. This is what we use to update/download the server. You will also need the Goldeneye Source dedicated server files from the list of mirrors supplied below.

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Installing

First we need to download the SDS (Source Dedicated Server). To download we open up hldsupdatetool.exe and download the tool to an arbitrary location on your machine, for example:

C:\HL2DS

Start -> Run -> type "cmd" -> hit ok -> then type "cd \location" Location is where the SDS was installed. Default is \HLServer If you saved it to the C Drive. If you followed the above directions it would look like this "cd \HL2DS".

Now type "hldsupdatetool" in the command prompt and hit enter, then hit Ctrl-C.

When you have finished installing the update tool type:

hldsupdatetool.exe -command update -game "hl2mp" -dir C:\HL2DS

If that doesnt work or your stuck or having trouble getting hl2mp then you can go here for a more indepth tutorial on how to get it.

Tip: Make sure you replace C:\HL2DS with your install path if it's different.

This will download all files necessary to host a Half-Life 2 Deathmatch server (and GE:S). And remember to "Go get yourself a cup of coffee." as Valve said, this will take some time.

Install the Goldeneye Source Dedicated Server files to "C:\HL2DS\gesource" (use your own install path).
Create a shortcut of srcds.exe and place it where you want then go to properties of the shortcut. Add the following to the end of the shortcut target:

-game gesource +maxplayers 16 -port 27015 -console +map ge_caves -autoupdate

It should look like this:

srcds.exe  -game gesource +maxplayers 16 -port 27015 -console +map ge_caves -autoupdate

Tip: You can adjust your port and maxplayers via the shortcut or the server.cfg file.

Correction/Update: maxplayers is known NOT to work in server.cfg with the beta

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Configuration

Next, edit your mapcycle.txt and server.cfg files to your liking.
Warning: When editing your server.cfg remember to change your rcon_password and hostname directives!

rcon_password "pass"  //Your rcon password
hostname "Servername" //The name of your server

These are the most important settings to change, there are more in the cfg so test around what is best for you.

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Starting

You should now be able to double-click your server shortcut, which will start up your dedicated server.

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Installing (Linux)

Currently all GE:S Beta Linux servers are experiencing a bug that will cause them to crash about every 10 minutes if there's players in them. The only known workaround is here.

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Setting up the initial directories and permissions

In this setup I have a CentOS 4 machine, and full root access. I am also assuming you use SSH, if your not remotely controlling, just skip that detail. Also to extract the hldsupdatetool, you need to have the ncompress rpm installed (as root: yum install ncompress).

As 'root' create a new user useradd -g users -m -s /bin/bash -d /home/myuser myuser
Set this new users password: passwd myuser
SSH in, you should be at your home users directory. mkdir hlds && cd hlds
download the hldsupdatetool, wget http://storefront.steampowered.com/download/hldsupdatetool.bin
chmod +x hldsupdatetool.bin
./hldsupdatetool.bin - 'yes' you now have a steam executable

Note: if you receive a 'uncompress: command not found' message it means your server does not 
have uncompress installed. You have two options to easily work around this, try the following 
while logged-in as root:
Code:

ln -s /bin/gunzip /bin/uncompress

Then try to run ./hldsupdatetool.bin again. If that does not work, or you do not have root 
privileges you can download the binary file we have available:
Code:

wget http://www.cstrike-planet.com/dls/steam

./steam -command update -game hl2mp -dir ./2
install gesource into ~/hlds/2/gesource like you would any other mod.
vi gesource hit i for insert, then paste the script below(shift-ins), after chmod +x gesource

#!/bin/bash
cd ./2
./srcds_run -console -game gesource +map ge_facility -maxplayers 16 
#if you have multiple IPs, or need to run from another port,  -ip x.x.x.x -port 27015
#You can put this at the end of the run command to send stdout and stderr into /dev/null (basically sends all output into no-mans-land).
#>/dev/null 2>&1 &

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Optional

#!/bin/bash
#file: update
./steam -command update -game $1 -dir ./2

#!/bin/bash
#file: goldeneye
cd ./2
./srcds_run -console -game gesource +map ge_facility -maxplayers 16

#!/bin/bash
#file:  loop
mydir=`pwd`
while true; do
  cd $mydir
  ./update hl2mp >/dev/null 2>&1
  ./gesource >/dev/null 2>&1
done

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