Periodic sv_say Messages?
StukaJU87c
Join Date: 2012-11-04 Member: 166988Members
Join Date: 2012-11-04 Member: 166988Members
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we did the same
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Now that. Is creative. :)
Synergi - you wanna explain how? :)
Its not that we dont want to share our solution with u, so if u really want the solution u can contact us in our forums www.exit1.at.
But we really dont want that these workarounds get satteled in the community. It's up to Unknown Worlds to make it able or not.
But generally said, we have the following setup to get an motd without server blacklisted as modded:
1) A php script
2) A timer for the php script
3) the php script itselfs casts "sv_say [TEXT]"
That easy nothing else.
<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1-->lynx -auth=username:password www.somesite.com/?request=json&command=Send&rcon=sv_say%20Welcome%20to%20The%20Thirsty%20Thirsty<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->
every x minutes.
You could also just run your standard cron and lynx on linux remotely.
<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1-->lynx -auth=username:password www.somesite.com/?request=json&command=Send&rcon=sv_say%20Welcome%20to%20The%20Thirsty%20Thirsty<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->
every x minutes.
You could also just run your standard cron and lynx on linux remotely.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well i tried it but i had the problem Lynx wasn't able to respond with a correct digest authentification; i tried wget but digest authentification seems to be broken since some version. Last resort cUrl (http://curl.haxx.se/download.html) worked for me
<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1-->C:\path\to\curl.exe --digest "http://**USERNAME**:**PASSWORD**@**DOMAIN_OR_IP**:**PORT**/?request=json&command=Send&rcon=sv_say%20TEST"<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->
Beside cron you could use the Windows Scheduler to execute this command.
--connect-timeout and --max-time
Edit:
How I set it up on my Ubuntu server:
crontab -e
*/10 * * * * /home/username/ns2server/motd.sh
File /home/username/ns2server/motd.sh with contents:
/usr/bin/curl --digest "http://username:password@hostname:port/?request=json&command=Send&rcon=sv_say%20Admin%20contact:%20zaggynl%20in%20%23naturalselection%20at%20irc.gamesurge.net" --max-time 3 --connect-timeout 3 -silent -o /dev/null
Don't forget to give execute permission on motd.sh with chmod +x /home/username/ns2server/motd.sh
Explanation: every 10 minutes it will say: "Admin contact: zaggynl on #naturalselection at irc.gamesurge.net"
Use <a href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/" target="_blank">http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/</a> to encode the part after rv_say%20 to URL notation, otherwise the message will not display correctly.
Edit: added chmod part.
curl.exe --digest "http://localhost:27057/?request=json&command=Send&rcon=sv_say%20TEST1"
However I only get this response back
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->"map": "ns2_veil", "cheats": "false", "marines": 0, "aliens": 0, "player_list"
: [ ], "frame_rate": 29.996246337891, "devmode": "false", "marine_res": 50, "up
time": 2245, "server_name": "myservernamet", "alien_res":
50, "webport": "27057", "players_online": 0, "webdomain": "localhost" }
C:\servers\Tools\curl><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Which is the the output from the web-interface when not going to index.html. I am doing this though localhost so I dont need username or password.
what am i missing?
NINJA EDIT: I suspect you are trying to do this from a batch file? If so, you need to change all "%" to "%%" as the % is a special operator in Windows batch files. Placing two of those tells Windows to interpret the "%%" as a literal "%" character.
i.e. curl.exe --digest "http://localhost:27057/?request=json&command=Send&rcon=sv_say%%20TEST1"
Running this command from the Windows Task Scheduler will not have such an issue.
<a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=120542&view=findpost&p=2039048" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...t&p=2039048</a>
Hope it helps someone.