BZFS

[Lone Wolf]

Hello all BZ lovers,

I'm a complete Newbie to working with BZFS , i know a little bit of it though,

i put my shortcut to point to --> %windir%\SYSTEM32\CMD.EXE /k "C:\Program Files\BZFlag2.0.2\bzfs.exe"

and right by it i put -> -d -conf C:\bzfs.conf
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But it says it has some errors on the Dos promt as shown below V

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C:\bzfs.conf: error: could not find bzflag configuration file

and i don't know what BZadmin.exe is exzactly,
Thanks All, Signed Your Wolf
Lone Wolf[color]
. !!! Please Reply !!!

[DTRemenak]

Does c:\bzfs.conf exist? Check the easy stuff first.

BZAdmin is a text-based client for bzflag. Basically you can join a server and watch the same events you'd see in bzflag's chat box.

[Lone Wolf]

Yes it is

Below is the config file through Microsoft Wordpad

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-d
-q
-p 5154
-public "Hey, obey rule number 6... no lauphing at the rules ;)"
-public /me Lauphs at the rules that he made, looking at the errors he made
-publicaddr "lone-gator.no-ip.info:5154"
-srvmsg "There are only 2 Rules here, \n 1. NO cheating \n 2 no swearing \n 3 no cussing \n 4 no rude comments of any kind \n 5 and this is my personal fave. HAVE FUN ;) \n 6 AND >No< lauphing at the rule thingie"
-vars C:\Documents and Settings\Pyro Scout\Desktop\Pyro\BZ\Docs\vars.txt
-fb
-j
+r
-lagdrop 3
-lagwarn 300
-maxidle 600
-mp 8,5,5,5,5,3
-ms 3
-password []N[]O[][]P[]A[]S[]S[]W[]O[]R[]D[][]P[]R[]O[]V[]I[]D[]E[]D[][]:[]D, : error366: problem with font:
-st 3
-sw 1
-timemanual
-world "C:\Documents and Settings\Pyro Scout\Desktop\Pyro\BZ\BZ Maps\3-story"
-banfile c:\mybanfile
-badwords c:\Banwords
-filterChat
-d
-fb
-sb
-lagdrop 6
-lagwarn 350
-ms 2
-reportfile c:\report.txt
-reportpipe command
+s 20
-s 30
-spamtime 1
-spamwarn 3
-synctime
-tk

Check::: the world file Does exsis and works so i know that that is not the error,
Check::: Vars is in the right place
Check::: And no, it isn't a password problem, i made it that way so that nobody can see

Failed::: Found no Configuration file
Check::: thanks for telling me BZadmin

[DTRemenak]

when I attempt to run with that config file I get:

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F:\Programs\bzflag>bzfs -conf f:\x.conf
bad argument "Lauphs"

and then the usage statement. You need quotes around your /me comment.

However, that won't fix your problem

The error message you're getting is triggered by an unexpected EOF before any commands. Basically that means you might have one of the following problems:

* The file does not exist, or is not named what you think it is (e.g. it's named "bzfs.conf.txt" and you have not turned off windows' idiotic "hide file extensions" 'feature').
* The file does exist but the user that bzfs is running as doesn't have permission to read it. This should not be your problem if you create the conf and run bzfs as the same user.
* The file is empty. Since you pasted the contents I'm assuming that's not the case.
* The file has an EOF character (ASCII 26) before the first readable statement. This is frequently the case if it's saved in a non-plain-text format (e.g. if you saved it as a wordpad document instead of a plain text file).

[Supertanker]

Open it with Microsoft Notepad. Save it as "Text only"

To get rid of "bzfs.conf.someidiotictxtfileextionsionbecausemicrosofthidestheextinsion"

enclose it in quotes, like

"bzfs.conf"

[Lone Wolf]

i have the program set up like an shortcut

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%windir%\SYSTEM32\CMD.EXE /k "C:\Program Files\BZFlag2.0.2\bzfs.exe" -d -conf C:\bzfs.conf

and it should work by my understanding

CHECK::: Does exist, including the rest of the files that i mapped to it like Var, badwords file, ETC

The var.txt file is printed below V

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set _wingsJumpCount 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
set _rejoinTime 1
set _skyColor black
set _tankSpeed 30.0
set _explodeTime 2.5

i have no stuff in my badwords file, i'll print them in as the server goes

and the rest of the files are blank as well

CHECK::: Showed var.txt
Faile: still an error

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-d 
-q 
-p 5154 
-public "Hey, obey rule number 6... no lauphing at the rules ;)" 
-public "/me Lauphs at the rules that he made, looking at the errors he made "
-publicaddr "lone-gator.no-ip.info:5154" 
-srvmsg "There are only 2 Rules here, \n 1. NO cheating \n 2 no swearing \n 3 no cussing \n 4 no rude comments of any kind \n 5 and this is my personal fave. HAVE FUN ;) \n 6 AND >No< lauphing at the rule thingie" 
-vars C:\Documents and Settings\Pyro Scout\Desktop\Pyro\BZ\Docs\vars.txt 
-fb 
-j 
+r 
-lagdrop 3 
-lagwarn 300 
-maxidle 600 
-mp 8,5,5,5,5,3 
-ms 3 
-password 
-st 3 
-sw 1 
-timemanual 
-world "C:\Documents and Settings\Pyro Scout\Desktop\Pyro\BZ\BZ Maps\3-story" 
-banfile c:\mybanfile 
-badwords c:\Banwords 
-filterChat 
-d 
-fb 
-sb 
-lagdrop 6 
-lagwarn 350 
-ms 2 
-reportfile c:\report.txt 
-reportpipe command 
+s 20 
-s 30 
-spamtime 1 
-spamwarn 3 
-synctime 
-tk

Check::: has fixed the qoutes prob

Thank all
Signed
Lone Wolf

[Guest]

Try running it with -dddd not just -d. It should now print out Loads of junk, but somewhere in there will be an error.

[Lone Wolf]

Thanks for telling me this CanonBall, but the problem is that i can't see the file,

However i fidled around with it, and found out the problem

the error that i found was that i miss typed the location of the file,

on windows xp it doesn't show the extension at the end, unless if it knows what it is, in this case it did as an .conf

EXAMP: copied the BZFS.conf to a diffrent place, and saved as bzfs.conf, and that was my mistake, if i told it to look in c:\bzfs.conf.conf it would work

However i have some errors on the .conf file

it says : eror: bad argument "3"....

And i can't figure it out

and i changed my file around to see what happens and it still has the same error

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-q
-p 5154 
-public "Hey, obey rule number 6... no lauphing at the rules ;)"
-public "/me Lauphs at the rules that he made, looking at the errors he made "
-publicaddr "lone-gator.no-ip.info:5154"
-srvmsg "There are only 2 Rules here, \n 1. NO cheating \n 2 no swearing \n 3. no cussing \n 4 no rude comments of any kind \n 5 and this is my personal fave. HAVE FUN ;) \n 6 and No lauphing at the rule thingie"
-vars "C:\Documents and Settings\Pyro Scout\Desktop\Pyro\BZ\Docs\vars.txt"
-fb
-j
+r
-lagdrop 4
-lagwarn 300
-maxidle 600
-mp 8,5,5,5,5,5
-ms 3
-password
-st 3
-sw 1
-timemanual
-world "C:\Documents and Settings\Pyro Scout\Desktop\Pyro\BZ\BZ Maps\3-story"
-banfile "c:\mybanfile"
-badwords "c:\Banwords"
-filterChat
-dddd
-fb
-sb 
-lagdrop 6
-lagwarn 350
-ms 2
-reportfile "c:\report.txt"
+s 20
-s 30 
-spamtime 1
-spamwarn 3
-synctime
-tk

Thanks All
LONE WOLF

[Supertanker]

To show file extensions, go to tools>folder options

TO add or remove a flag use

+f st
-f sw

not just -sw or +st

[Lone Wolf]

-sw 1
Bad flags are automatically dropped after this many wins.

and -st 3

Bad flags are automatically dropped after this many seconds.

Signed Lone Wolf

[DTRemenak]

Your password line is blank...so it reads -password -st, then 3 as the next argument. If I copy your conf just as you have it, and remove the password line, it runs with no errors.

[Lone Wolf]

Thanks all,

But i'm still getting errors
and i can't find out why

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style: 68
  jumping allowed
  all shots ricochet
  shakable bad flags: timeout=3.000000, wins=1
using spam time of 1
using spam warn amount of 3
style: 6a
  super flags allowed
  jumping allowed
  all shots ricochet
  shakable bad flags: timeout=3.000000, wins=1
style: 6a
  super flags allowed
  jumping allowed
  all shots ricochet
  shakable bad flags: timeout=3.000000, wins=1
Loading variables from C:\Documents and Settings\Pyro Scout\Desktop\Pyro\BZ\Docs
\vars.txt
Successfully loaded variable(s)
Loading c:\banwords.txt

Loaded 0 words
There is a voting arbiter with the following settings:
        vote time is 60 seconds
        veto time is 2 seconds
        votes required are 2
        vote percentage necessary is 50.099998
        vote repeat time is 300 seconds
        available voters is initially set to 33
Running a public server with the following settings:
        public address is lone-gator.no-ip.info:5154
LIBCURL: libcurl/7.12.3
Loaded master ban list from http://bzflag.org/master-bans.txt
        listening on 0.0.0.0:5154
        with title of "Hey, obey rule number 6... no lauphing at the rules ;)"
ColDet Octree obstacles = 111
  grid extent[0] = -536.281311, 574.000916
  grid extent[1] = -445.000000, 665.282227
  grid extent[2] = 0.000000, 1110.282227
  world extent[0] = -521.780396, 559.500000
  world extent[1] = -445.000000, 665.282227
  world extent[2] = 0.000000, 631.500000
ColDet Octree leaf nodes  = 888
ColDet Octree total nodes = 1035
ColDet Octree total elements = 2328
Collision Octree processed in 0.005 seconds.
TELE(0): /t8
TELE(1): /t7
TELE(2): /t1
TELE(3): /t0
TELE(4): /t6
TELE(5): /t3
TELE(6): /t4
TELE(7): /t5
TELE(8): /t2
LINKSRC: /t4:f                           LINKDST: /t1:f
LINKSRC: /t1:f                           LINKDST: /t4:f
LINKSRC: /t5:f                           LINKDST: /t0:f
LINKSRC: /t0:f                           LINKDST: /t5:f
LINKSRC: /t6:f                           LINKDST: /t7:f
LINKSRC: /t7:f                           LINKDST: /t6:f
LINKSRC: /t6:b                           LINKDST: /t8:f
LINKSRC: /t8:f                           LINKDST: /t6:b
SRC   0f:  DSTS 4b
SRC   0b:  DSTS 0f
SRC   1f:  DSTS 4f
SRC   1b:  DSTS 1f
SRC   2f:  DSTS 6f
SRC   2b:  DSTS 2f
SRC   3f:  DSTS 7f
SRC   3b:  DSTS 3f
SRC   4f:  DSTS 1f
SRC   4b:  DSTS 0f
SRC   5f:  DSTS 5b
SRC   5b:  DSTS 5f
SRC   6f:  DSTS 2f
SRC   6b:  DSTS 6f
SRC   7f:  DSTS 3f
SRC   7b:  DSTS 7f
SRC   8f:  DSTS 8b
SRC   8b:  DSTS 8f
Map size: uncompressed = 3133, compressed = 1130
Compression: 0.002 seconds
MD5 generation: 0.000 seconds
Opening List Server
Queuing ADD message to list server
GET /db/?action=ADD&nameport=lone-gator.no-ip.info:5154&version=BZFS0026&gameinf
o=006a00020001001e0000000000001c000800050005000500050005&build=2.0.2.20050318-ST
ABLE-W32VC71&checktokens=&groups=EVERYONE%0D%0AVERIFIED%0D%0A&title=Hey%2C+obey+
rule+number+6%2E%2E%2E+no+lauphing+at+the+rules+%3B%29 HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: bzfs 2.0.2.20050318-STABLE-W32VC71
Host: my.BZFlag.org
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close 

then after a minuet or so

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Closing List Server
Got line: "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
Got line: "Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 21:05:20 GMT"
Got line: "Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) DAV/2 SVN/1.1.4 PHP/4.3.10-1
5 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e"
Got line: "X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.10-15"
Got line: "Cache-Control: no-cache"
Got line: "Pragma: no-cache"
Got line: "Content-Length: 312"
Got line: "Connection: close"
Got line: "Content-Type: text/plain"
Got line: "MSG: ADD lone-gator.no-ip.info:5154 BZFS0026 006a00020001001e00000000
00001c000800050005000500050005 Hey, obey rule number 6... no lauphing at the rul
es ;)"
Got line: "<br />"
Got line: "<b>Warning</b>:  fsockopen(): unable to connect to lone-gator.no-ip.i
nfo:5154 in <b>/var/www/bzfls.php</b> on line <b>418</b><br />"
Got line: "failed to connect"

for some reason it disconnects
and i don't know why

and i know that the -publicaddr is right

end of message
Signed The Lone Wolf

[Sir_Pants]

Got line: "<br />"
Got line: "<b>Warning</b>: fsockopen(): unable to connect to lone-gator.no-ip.i
nfo:5154 in <b>/var/www/bzfls.php</b> on line <b>418</b><br />"
Got line: "failed to connect"
[/code]

fsockopen means you have to many ports open on your router, for instance if you have 5 different computers on your home network and they all have the same port open then you will get this error, at least that is what happened to me, to solve it i went into my router and removed all the ports i opened for bzfs, then i open only two ports for my hosting computer, one on tcp and one udp and it worked fine so i suggest doing that

[Lone Wolf]

Is there anothere way????

i mean that there are about five computers running in the house, and some of the people that live here could care less about BZflag ;(, unfurtinitly.

[Lone Wolf]

ok never minds about my previeous question, i didn't under stand anything about ports, until i did some reserch

and it might take longer to fix this error then it is for the previeous ones

i might have some more errors

But thanks all for helping me

Signed
the Wolf