really confused

[Gollum]

I went into the BZFS Conf. Builder And I did it and at the boddom it says Problem building configuration file: [object Error]
so what do I do now after the building? it and how do I make it how I want it and all?

[Lan]

Was there anything that is suspicious about your selections? This doesn't look like a blatant error, but something messed up internally when executing it. Only thing I can think of is that someone goofed when writing it, and there isn't much that can help right now.

[Gollum]

no weird writing After I do that though what do I do?

[ducatiwannabe]

post the conf and I'll tell ya

[Gollum]

what on earth is conf...oh configuration I'll get it.




#This is a bzfs configuration file.
#Copy and paste into a simple text file and name it like sample.conf.
#Use it like bzfs -conf sample.conf

#Public description for the server
-public "Gollum's world"

#Public network address for the server
-publicaddr 45.2

#Public List server to register with
-publiclist Gollum's world

#Server Message displayed when player joins
-srvmsg "First server"

#Server will not respond to pings
-q

#Lag Warning threshold time [ms]
-lagwarn 2

#Drop player after this many lag warnings
-lagdrop 900

#Ban File
-banfile "sample.conf."

#Idle Kick Threshold [s]
-maxidle 10.00

#Team killer to wins percentage (1-100) above which player is kicked
-tkkr 1

#Bad Words filter file specification
-badwords Play With Toys ass

#Message that is broadcast every 15 minutes
-admsg "No swearing or team killing will be ban"

#Help Messages file specification
-helpmsg "sample.conf." about

#File to which to write user reports
-reportfile "sample.conf."

#Program to which to pipe user reports
-reportpipe "sample.conf."

#Increase debugging level
-dddd

#Administrator's password
-password "n"

#File that stores user passwords
-passdb "sample.conf."

#File that stores group privileges
-groupdb "sample.conf."

#File that stores user privileges
-userdb "sample.conf."

#Filter callsigns to disallow inappropriate user names
-filterCallsigns

#Percentage of players required to affirm a poll
-votePercentage 10.1

#Minimum count of votes required to make a vote valid
-votesRequired 2

#maximum amount of time a player has to vote on a poll in seconds
-voteTime 99

#Maximum seconds an authorized user has to cancel a poll
-vetoTime 50

#Minimum seconds required before a player may request another vote
-voteRepeatTime 100

#Random world density
-density 9

#Flags can exist on buildings
-fb

#Tanks can spawn on buildings
-sb

#Randomly orient buildings
-b

#Random height buildings
-h

#Maximum Team score limit on game
-mts 99999999999999999999999999

#Allow random teleporters
-t

#Insert antidote superflags
-sa

#File that stores world parameter variable overrides
-vars "Bruce's web"

#Tanks can jump
-Tab

#Ordinance richochets
+r

#Maximum concurrent shots
-ms 2

#Limit Acceleration
-a

#Bad Flag shake time [s]
-st 4.00

#Mandatory flags
+f good{999999} +f bad{555} +f V{5} +f A{5} +f OO{5} +f F{5} +f MG{5} +f GM{5} +f L{5} +f R{5} +f SB{5} +f IB{5} +f ST{5} +f T{5} +f N{5} +f SH{5} +f SR{5} +f SW{5} +f PZ{5} +f G{5} +f JP{5} +f ID{3} +f CL{5} +f US{5} +f MQ{5} +f SE{5} +f TH{5} +f BU{5} +f CB{5} +f LT{5} Problem building configuration file: [object Error]




and that is it.

[ducatiwannabe]

try taking out the mandatory flags

[Gollum]

ok

[Gollum]

#This is a bzfs configuration file.
#Copy and paste into a simple text file and name it like sample.conf.
#Use it like bzfs -conf sample.conf

#Public description for the server
-public "Gollum's World"

#Public network address for the server
-publicaddr Gollum's World

#Public List server to register with
-publiclist bzfs conf-Gollum's World

#Server Message displayed when player joins
-srvmsg "Gollum's World "

#Lag Warning threshold time [ms]
-lagwarn 20

#Drop player after this many lag warnings
-lagdrop 2

#Ban players based on ip addresses
-ban "Play With Toys,ass"

#Ban File
-banfile "Bruce's web"

#Idle Kick Threshold [s]
-maxidle 5.00

#Team killer to wins percentage (1-100) above which player is kicked
-tkkr 1

#Bad Words filter file specification
-badwords Bruce's web

#Message that is broadcast every 15 minutes
-admsg "Hey don't team kill or swear and you are good"

#Disable robots and the ROGER autopilot
-prohibitBots

#Help Messages file specification
-helpmsg "Bruce's web" about

#File to which to write user reports
-reportfile "Bruce's web"

#Program to which to pipe user reports
-reportpipe "Bruce's web"

#Increase debugging level
-dddd

#Administrator's password
-password "n"

#File that stores user passwords
-passdb "Bruce's web"

#File that stores group privileges
-groupdb "Bruce's web"

#File that stores user privileges
-userdb "Bruce's web"

#Filter callsigns to disallow inappropriate user names
-filterCallsigns

#Filter chat messages
-filterChat

#Percentage of players required to affirm a poll
-votePercentage 30.1

#Capture the flag game style
-c

#Random world density
-density 9

#Randomly orient buildings
-b

#Random height buildings
-h

#Maximum number of players n, or max players per team n,n,n,n,n,n
-mp 8

#Maximum Team score limit on game
-mts 999999999999

#Maximum Player score limit on game
-mps 999999999999

#Number of superflags that must exist at all times
+s

#Number of superflags that may exist at any time
-s

#Time to keep team flag around after last member has left [s]
-tftimeout 10

#File that stores world parameter variable overrides
-vars "Bruce's web"

#Ordinance richochets
+r

#Maximum concurrent shots
-ms 2

#Limit Acceleration
-a

#Auto Team assignments
-autoTeam

#Extra Team flags
+f team{2} +f R* +f B*

#Mandatory flags
+f LT Problem building configuration file: [object Error]



there now what?

[ducatiwannabe]

get rid of all mandatory flags, extra team flags, and lower the 99999999 numbers that might help.

[[dmp]]

Stuff that looks wrong:

>>#Public network address for the server
>>-publicaddr Gollum's World

That isnt a network address. Use your IP.

>>#Public List server to register with
>>-publiclist bzfs conf-Gollum's World

that looks really wrong too. That should be the listserver. I think its:
http://db.bzflag.org/db/

>> -banfile "Bruce's web"

Is this a file? Odd name for a ban file (nothing to do with web)

>> -badwords Bruce's web
>> -reportfile "Bruce's web"
>> -helpmsg "Bruce's web" about
>> -passdb "Bruce's web"
>> -userdb "Bruce's web"
>> -groupdb "Bruce's web"
>> -vars "Bruce's web"

(might missed some)

resport, userdb, helpmsg etc is using the same file? This makes no sense. They are probably using different format, so it would probably mess that file up pretty bad.

[JeffM]

you don't need -publiclist if your going to just use the defaults

and yeah having all the files the same would be BAD!

[Lan]

If all that stuff still doesn't fix it, it might just be a messup and it really did finish building the conf file, but spits that msg out when it's done as a messup. *shrug*

[Gollum]

will do thanks

[JeffM]

also if you don't want an option just don't ut a value for it, don't put a big big number in for it, or any random text.

[Gollum]

ok here it is



#This is a bzfs configuration file.
#Copy and paste into a simple text file and name it like sample.conf.
#Use it like bzfs -conf sample.conf

#Public description for the server
-public "Gollums World"

#Public network address for the server
-publicaddr Gollum's World

#Public List server to register with
-publiclist 542.89.01

#Server Message displayed when player joins
-srvmsg ""Welcome""

#Lag Warning threshold time [ms]
-lagwarn 20

#Drop player after this many lag warnings
-lagdrop 2

#Ban players based on ip addresses
-ban "Bad"

#Ban File
-banfile "bzfs server"

#Idle Kick Threshold [s]
-maxidle 5.00

#Team killer to wins percentage (1-100) above which player is kicked
-tkkr 1

#Bad Words filter file specification
-badwords bzfs server

#Message that is broadcast every 15 minutes
-admsg "Come on Hobbits"

#Help Messages file specification
-helpmsg "bzfs server" about

#Program to which to pipe user reports
-reportpipe "bzfs server"

#Administrator's password
-password "n"

#File that stores user passwords
-passdb "bzfs server"

#File that stores group privileges
-groupdb "bzfs server"

#File that stores user privileges
-userdb "bzfs server"

#Filter callsigns to disallow inappropriate user names
-filterCallsigns

#Filter chat messages
-filterChat

#Perform simple exact matches with the bad word list
-filterSimple

#Percentage of players required to affirm a poll
-votePercentage 32.1

#Minimum count of votes required to make a vote valid
-votesRequired 2

#maximum amount of time a player has to vote on a poll in seconds
-voteTime 8.00

#Maximum seconds an authorized user has to cancel a poll
-vetoTime 11.00

#Minimum seconds required before a player may request another vote
-voteRepeatTime 200

#Capture the flag game style
-c

#Random world density
-density 9

#Randomly orient buildings
-b

#Random height buildings
-h

#Maximum number of players n, or max players per team n,n,n,n,n,n
-mp 8

#Maximum Team score limit on game
-mts 200

#Maximum Player score limit on game
-mps 200

#Number of superflags that must exist at all times
+s

#Number of superflags that may exist at any time
-s

#Allow random teleporters
-t

#Time to keep team flag around after last member has left [s]
-tftimeout

#File that stores world parameter variable overrides
-vars "bzfs server"

#Ordinance richochets
+r

#Maximum concurrent shots
-ms 2

#Limit Acceleration
-a

#Extra Team flags
+f team{2} +f R* +f G*

#Mandatory flags
+f LT +f RT



#Flag Shot Limits
-sl LT 1 -sl RT 1


here it is

[JeffM]

dude your files are still wacky

you can't have the same filename for multiple files

also look at your ban setup your banning "bad" and specifiying a banfile, you only need one or the other..

what options are you trying to do?

do you NEED registraton and all that?

[Gollum]

#This is a bzfs configuration file.
#Copy and paste into a simple text file and name it like sample.conf.
#Use it like bzfs -conf sample.conf

#Public description for the server
-public "Gollums World"

#Public network address for the server
-publicaddr Gollum's World

#Public List server to register with
-publiclist 542.89.01

#Server Message displayed when player joins
-srvmsg ""Welcome""

#Lag Warning threshold time [ms]
-lagwarn 20

#Drop player after this many lag warnings
-lagdrop 2

#Ban players based on ip addresses
-ban "Bad"

#Ban File
-banfile "bz1"

#Idle Kick Threshold [s]
-maxidle 5.00

#Team killer to wins percentage (1-100) above which player is kicked
-tkkr 1

#Bad Words filter file specification
-badwords bz2

#Message that is broadcast every 15 minutes
-admsg "Come on Hobbits"

#Help Messages file specification
-helpmsg "bz3" about

#Program to which to pipe user reports
-reportpipe "bz4"

#Administrator's password
-password "n"

#File that stores user passwords
-passdb "bz5"

#File that stores group privileges
-groupdb "bz6"

#File that stores user privileges
-userdb "bz7"

#Filter callsigns to disallow inappropriate user names
-filterCallsigns

#Filter chat messages
-filterChat

#Perform simple exact matches with the bad word list
-filterSimple

#Percentage of players required to affirm a poll
-votePercentage 32.1

#Minimum count of votes required to make a vote valid
-votesRequired 2

#maximum amount of time a player has to vote on a poll in seconds
-voteTime 8.00

#Maximum seconds an authorized user has to cancel a poll
-vetoTime 11.00

#Minimum seconds required before a player may request another vote
-voteRepeatTime 200

#Capture the flag game style
-c

#Random world density
-density 9

#Randomly orient buildings
-b

#Random height buildings
-h

#Maximum number of players n, or max players per team n,n,n,n,n,n
-mp 8

#Maximum Team score limit on game
-mts 200

#Maximum Player score limit on game
-mps 200

#Number of superflags that must exist at all times
+s

#Number of superflags that may exist at any time
-s

#Allow random teleporters
-t

#Time to keep team flag around after last member has left [s]
-tftimeout

#File that stores world parameter variable overrides
-vars "bz8"

#Ordinance richochets
+r

#Maximum concurrent shots
-ms 2

#Limit Acceleration
-a

#Extra Team flags
+f team{2} +f R* +f G*

#Mandatory flags
+f LT +f RT



#Flag Shot Limits
-sl LT 1 -sl RT 1



here hopefully that does it

[JeffM]

do you have files for all the external files you defined?

like bz1 for the banfile etc...

also you have -ban "bad" that's not a valid ban.

you have the publiclist as your address. and your publicaddr is wrong.

here is a reworked config for you.

in aditiond to the config you need the following files

mybanfile.txt
mybadwords.txt
myabout.txt
myreportfile.txt
mypassdb.txt
mygroups.txt
myusers.txt
myvars.txt

each file has to have the aproprite contents, bans for ban file, vars, for varfile, groups for groups, etc.... If you don't want to specify a file for a section, remove the entire line. Like if you don't want to do user groups then remove the groupfile line totaly.

You just can't put garbage names in for files and expect it to work.

#begin config

#Public description for the server
-public "Gollums World"

#Server Message displayed when player joins
-srvmsg ""Welcome""

#Lag Warning threshold time [ms]
-lagwarn 20

#Drop player after this many lag warnings
-lagdrop 2

#Ban File
-banfile "mybanfile.txt"

#Idle Kick Threshold [s]
-maxidle 5.00

#Team killer to wins percentage (1-100) above which player is kicked
-tkkr 1

#Bad Words filter file specification
-badwords "mybadwords.txt"

#Message that is broadcast every 15 minutes
-admsg "Come on Hobbits"

#Help Messages file specification
-helpmsg "myabout.txt" about

#Program to which to pipe user reports
-reportpipe "myreportfile.txt"

#Administrator's password
-password "n"

#File that stores user passwords
-passdb "mypassdb.txt"

#File that stores group privileges
-groupdb "mygroups.txt"

#File that stores user privileges
-userdb "myusers.txt"

#Filter callsigns to disallow inappropriate user names
-filterCallsigns

#Filter chat messages
-filterChat

#Perform simple exact matches with the bad word list
-filterSimple

#Percentage of players required to affirm a poll
-votePercentage 32.1

#Minimum count of votes required to make a vote valid
-votesRequired 2

#maximum amount of time a player has to vote on a poll in seconds
-voteTime 8.00

#Maximum seconds an authorized user has to cancel a poll
-vetoTime 11.00

#Minimum seconds required before a player may request another vote
-voteRepeatTime 200

#Capture the flag game style
-c

#Random world density
-density 9

#Randomly orient buildings
-b

#Random height buildings
-h

#Maximum number of players n, or max players per team n,n,n,n,n,n
-mp 8

#Maximum Team score limit on game
-mts 200

#Maximum Player score limit on game
-mps 200

#Number of superflags that must exist at all times
+s

#Number of superflags that may exist at any time
-s

#Allow random teleporters
-t

#Time to keep team flag around after last member has left [s]
-tftimeout

#File that stores world parameter variable overrides
-vars "myvars.txt"

#Ordinance richochets
+r

#Maximum concurrent shots
-ms 2

#Limit Acceleration
-a

#Extra Team flags
+f team{2} +f R* +f G*

#Mandatory flags
+f LT +f RT

#Flag Shot Limits
-sl LT 1 -sl RT 1

[Gollum]

done here it is.



#This is a bzfs configuration file.
#Copy and paste into a simple text file and name it like sample.conf.
#Use it like bzfs -conf sample.conf

#Public description for the server
-public "Gollums World"

#Server Message displayed when player joins
-srvmsg ""Welcome""

#Lag Warning threshold time [ms]
-lagwarn 20

#Drop player after this many lag warnings
-lagdrop 2

#Ban File
-banfile "mybanfile.txt"

#Idle Kick Threshold [s]
-maxidle 5.00

#Team killer to wins percentage (1-100) above which player is kicked
-tkkr 1

#Bad Words filter file specification
-badwords "mybadwords.txt"

#Message that is broadcast every 15 minutes
-admsg "Come on Hobbits"

#Help Messages file specification
-helpmsg "myabout.txt" about

#Program to which to pipe user reports
-reportpipe "myreportfile.txt"

#Administrator's password
-password "n"

#File that stores user passwords
-passdb "mypassdb.txt"

#File that stores group privileges
-groupdb "mygroups.txt"

#File that stores user privileges
-userdb "myusers.txt"

#Filter callsigns to disallow inappropriate user names
-filterCallsigns

#Filter chat messages
-filterChat

#Perform simple exact matches with the bad word list
-filterSimple

#Percentage of players required to affirm a poll
-votePercentage 32.1

#Minimum count of votes required to make a vote valid
-votesRequired 2

#maximum amount of time a player has to vote on a poll in seconds
-voteTime 8.00

#Maximum seconds an authorized user has to cancel a poll
-vetoTime 11.00

#Minimum seconds required before a player may request another vote
-voteRepeatTime 200

#Capture the flag game style
-c

#Random world density
-density 9

#Randomly orient buildings
-b

#Random height buildings
-h

#Maximum number of players n, or max players per team n,n,n,n,n,n
-mp 8

#Maximum Team score limit on game
-mts 200

#Maximum Player score limit on game
-mps 200

#Number of superflags that must exist at all times
+s

#Number of superflags that may exist at any time
-s

#Allow random teleporters
-t

#Time to keep team flag around after last member has left [s]
-tftimeout

#File that stores world parameter variable overrides
-vars "myvars.txt"

#Ordinance richochets
+r

#Maximum concurrent shots
-ms 2

#Limit Acceleration
-a

#Extra Team flags
+f team{2} +f R* +f G*

#Mandatory flags
+f LT +f RT

#Flag Shot Limits
-sl LT 1 -sl RT 1




so yeah .

[JeffM]

does it work?

[Gollum]

How do I do it?????? I don't know what to do?

[Gollum]

#This is a bzfs configuration file.
#Copy and paste into a simple text file and name it like sample.conf.
#Use it like bzfs -conf sample.conf

#Public description for the server
-public "Gollums world"

#Server Message displayed when player joins
-srvmsg "Welcome"

#Lag Warning threshold time [ms]
-lagwarn 20

#Drop player after this many lag warnings
-lagdrop 2

#Ban File
-banfile "mybanfile.txt"

#Idle Kick Threshold [s]
-maxidle 5.00

#Team killer to wins percentage (1-100) above which player is kicked
-tkkr 1

#Bad Words filter file specification
-badwords mybadwords.txt

#Message that is broadcast every 15 minutes
-admsg "Come on Hobbits"

#Help Messages file specification
-helpmsg "myabout.txt" about

#Program to which to pipe user reports
-reportpipe "myreportfile.txt"

#File that stores user passwords
-passdb "mypassdb.txt"

#File that stores group privileges
-groupdb "mygroups.txt"

#File that stores user privileges
-userdb "myuser.txt"

#Filter callsigns to disallow inappropriate user names
-filterCallsigns

#Filter chat messages
-filterChat

#Perform simple exact matches with the bad word list
-filterSimple

#Percentage of players required to affirm a poll
-votePercentage 32.1

#Minimum count of votes required to make a vote valid
-votesRequired 2

#maximum amount of time a player has to vote on a poll in seconds
-voteTime 8.00

#Maximum seconds an authorized user has to cancel a poll
-vetoTime 11.00

#Minimum seconds required before a player may request another vote
-voteRepeatTime 200

#Capture the flag game style
-c

#Random world density
-density 9

#Randomly orient buildings
-b

#Random height buildings
-h

#Maximum number of players n, or max players per team n,n,n,n,n,n
-mp 8

#Maximum Team score limit on game
-mts 200

#Maximum Player score limit on game
-mps 200

#Number of superflags that must exist at all times
+s

#Number of superflags that may exist at any time
-s

#Allow random teleporters
-t

#File that stores world parameter variable overrides
-vars "myvars.txt"

#Ordinance richochets
+r

#Maximum concurrent shots
-ms 2

#Limit Acceleration
-a

#Extra Team flags
+f team{2} +f R* +f G*

#Mandatory flags
+f LT Problem building configuration file: [object Error]




I built it again but It has the Object error now. This time i did it in the 1.10.8 doc file and last time in the 1.10.6. Does that make a difference??

[JeffM]

run bzfs -config /the/path/to/your/config.file

if it gives an error we need to know exactly what it is.

[Gollum]

And where do I find that. I think I will use the other one. I was just trying with that one anyway. So now what do I do How do I make it. So yeah. Ok where do I go. to BUILD it.

[Gollum]

If I sound anxious................I AM