Hello All,
I really have 3 questions.
1.) What are the minimal system requirements to run a source server?...well, let me rephrase that, is a 500MHz PII with 192Mb RAM enough to run a server? What is the best linux distro to use?

2.) This might be a linux problem but...I am on Mandrake 10.1 and after I get the file(update tool) and chmod it to executable. I run the ./hldsupdatetool.bin command and the lisence agreement comes up I type yes and then it gives me the following error and none of the files are removed from the bin:
...
Enter 'yes' to accept this agreement, 'no' to decline: yes
sh: line 1: uncompress: command not found
Broken pipe
[root@mandrake counter]#

What is the problem?
Thanks in Advance

in regards to #1, it'll depend on how many players and bots you are gonna have on your server.

as for #2, you should wait for cryoteks answer as he is pretty good with that kind of stuff.

as ic0gs wrote it all depends. as far as distro is concered. im either for FreeBSD or Gentoo linux.

also do NOT run your server as root.
To fix your ncompress option, you have 2 options. First, you can either install ncompress by getting a mandrake rpm for ncompress OR you and link it to gunzip

NOTE: Your gunzip MIGHT be in /bin/gunzip

if you have slocate installed just locate gunzip

This post was last modified: 04-13-2005 02:43 PM by cryotek.

Ok iam running FC4 that about all know...sad i know i keep getting this error
sh: uncompress: command not found

and the help that you posted did not help
ln -s /bin/gunzip /bin/uncompress
It says cannot find the uncompress part I dont know whats wrong it was working on my other linux computer i just upgraded systems.

you need to enter it as:

ln -s /usr/bin/gunzip /usr/bin/uncompress

if you typed it the way you did in your message it won't work. i would also try this as root or su. i use fc4 too and every install needs this symbolic link created.

edit: it may also depend on if you have gzip installed, if not then you have to install it and create the link.

This post was last modified: 05-05-2006 04:53 PM by fqdn.

ln -s /usr/bin/gunzip /usr/bin/uncompress

thats the first requierement to have on some linux boxes, not on all but on most

pls dont run srcds servers as root.

user can install uninstall and all in his own home folder, srcds as root is stupid.

This post was last modified: 05-05-2006 11:15 PM by get.

yes don't run srcds as root, but i think you have to make the link as root? could be mistaken i always to it as root, never tried as the game account.

Thanks guys you kick ass!

the link must be done as root. the rest you nevermore need a root user to have gameing accounts

ok i dont know if i am retarted or what but i am using Fedora 5 and i cant get it to uncompress i enter this:

[Server@admin srcds_l]$ ln -s /usr/bin/gunzip /usr/bin/uncompress
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/bin/uncompress' to `/usr/bin/gunzip': Permission denied

can someone please help me this is my first time using linux and i dont know what to do.

minibaka use this command I am also using fedora core 5 and this one worked:

i have tried all of this

and i cant uncompress it

i have downloaded ncompress, but dont know how to install

i am new to linux

if someone could please contact me by aim i would apreciate it

aim= nirvana626

if the help is successfull i would offer the person who helps me a lil cash

please contact me or reply to this asap

thx

have you tried running the command above as root? permission denied points to your account not having priviledges. try cd /usr/bin and do a ls to see if gunzip even exists. i've never tried it but i doubt you can create a link to something that doesn't exist.

Simplest solution to compression issue is running "yum install ncompress"

-EZ mode Redhat linux

or "apt-get ncompress" for Debian based boxes