I swear srcds refuses to install...

[Track3R]

I tried it with the old binary, first i tried
./steam -create <my aol username> <mypassword> <my question> <myasnwer>

so it was something like this (these are fake values)
./steam -create blah@aol.com ok ok ok

and it said Please enter a valid email address.
so i changed the 1st to <myaolusername@aol.com>
and instead it gave me the error
AuthenticationServerRSAPublicKey failed signature verifcation


Also with the new binary the help listed no create command, and both
./steam -create
and
./steam -command create
were not recognized, so I skipped striaght to trying to install the dedicated server with

./steam -command update -game "Counter-Strike Source" -dir . (note i've used almost every dir)
and then it says
Checking bootstrapper version ...
Updating Installation

and eventually after like 5mins says "Receive Failure"

Also I've used my username/password with the update command too, does nothing.

Also I deleted the directory ~/.steam and everything in it multiple times, just in case that .blob file was getting in the way.

I've checked everywhere for that error msg and no one seems to have anything good to say about it.
Note: I took down my firewall and that didnt help. I tried running it as root (only once or twice) but that didnt help either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated..


Edit: running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE
gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 [FreeBSD] 20031106
used to run CS 1.6 server, so I know it's possible.

[cryotek]

You might have a bad binary, try this binary, http://game01.machgaming.net/~dan/steam
its version 12 so a quick chmod +x steam && ./steam will make it executable and update it. after that is all said and done, try installing source.

[Track3R]

I have tried many binarys, including that one (just now) to no avail, but thank you anyways. However I think i've found the issue. I'm on a college campus with an IP that's not NAT'd or firewalled, however my campus blocks ping. Apparently the steam update utility requires ping to work in order to work. Thus the Receive Error. So annoying....
So apparently I have to make some kind of SSH tunnel to an outside computer for the update command. This will be fun...

[cryotek]

or you can rent a css server *cheesy grin* I can help with that.

[Track3R]

no no, if worse comes to worse ill move my server off campus.

[Track3R]

"So apparently I have to make some kind of SSH tunnel to an outside computer for the update command. This will be fun..."

... does anybody have an idea as to how to go about this?

[cryotek]

You should be able to run sshd on the outside computer, then use an ssh client such as putty from windows, or just do ssh user@host from linux/FreeBSD.