Auto Updating a TF2 Server

[couto607]

My server is on a Linux OS(I don't know what kind of linux) and it doesn't seem to auto-update when I restart it. I've tried it various times with no results. What files do I need to add/edit? I have full access to FTP.

I know I'm not giving much information, but I'm giving all I know. I will try to answer any questions you may have.

Here's the startup script if it helps at all.

nohup ./srcds_run -game tf -timeout 30 -autoupdate -debuglog tf2debug.log +map ctf_2fort +port 27015 +maxplayers 24 > log.txt &

[Mooga]

I think autoupdate it broken for TF2. However there is a "hack" to fix it (I think).

Moved to linux.

[couto607]

I heard it was broken, but I know there's a way to do it. What is this hack you speak of?

[ogre_x]

couto607 Wrote:I heard it was broken, but I know there's a way to do it. What is this hack you speak of?

Normally you have the steam binary one level above the orangebox folder. What I do is to create a symlink to the steam binary to the orangebox folder where autoupdate expect to find it:

Code:

cd orangebox
ln -s ../steam .

resulting in

Code:

ls -la
lrwxrwxrwx   1 hlserver hlserver      8 Apr  5 02:04 steam -> ../steam

in the orangebox folder.

[lhffan]

How about dods? Autoupdate broken there also?

[foamcup]

Thanks for the tip ogre!