Noob questions

[gurney]

I just started a dedicated server yesterday and was able to get it running fine but i cannot seem to find any documentation and actualy administrating a server? Are there any good sources for newbie admins to learn the ropes? I mean i know nothing i have never adminied an FPS server before. here are some of my questions

How do i access the server console when i am usuing SSH to connect to the server?

Can you run console commands when conected to the server as a client? if so how?

How do i know what changes to config files require server restarts to come into effect?

These are just a few of my questions.Honestly i am usualy pretty good with linux and running servers but with this i am totaly lost. Any help will be greatly appreciated

[inc0gs]

gurney Wrote:I just started a dedicated server yesterday and was able to get it running fine but i cannot seem to find any documentation and actualy administrating a server? Are there any good sources for newbie admins to learn the ropes? I mean i know nothing i have never adminied an FPS server before. here are some of my questions

Well you could always browse various forums such as:
srcds.com (here)
steam
United Admins (this one is more geared towards cs 1.6 instead of css)

gurney Wrote:How do i access the server console when i am usuing SSH to connect to the server?

That would depend on how you set up your server. If you followed the tutorial here, then it would be just

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gurney Wrote:Can you run console commands when conected to the server as a client? if so how?

Set your rcon_password in your server.cfg, then in game you can authenticate with rcon_password <password>(i'm not 100% sure if thats the right command), then use rcon <command>.

gurney Wrote:How do i know what changes to config files require server restarts to come into effect?

generally, if the command is in a config file (such as server.cfg), a server restart is not needed. If you are changing a start command line option, then you'd need to restart.