Games :: Got a ventrilo server working?

ok I followed this ClarkConnect TS setup by Aw Phuch and finally got Teamspeak to work as "nobody" as per that pages instructions... Took 12 hours of my time today b/c of numerous snafus & restarts & reinstalls with frugal   K i feel stupid enough tyvm but I got it to work even spreading the opt & home directories to two different partitions.

Anyway I ran thru the instructions to setup a Ventrilo server & for some reason i cannot get it to start as the user nobody using almost identical instructions to what was suggested on that webpage.  If I type in "sudo -u nobody <path to vent>/ventrilo-srv -d" to a regular term, as root no less, i get permission denied too!  I tried to put a similar line into /opt/bootlocal.sh but it kept spitting out an error that "sudo -u" was not a valid command?  

So any help is appreciated.

Aveline

It is funny how this little distro can eat up endless hours of your life, and yet you still feel good about making it work...are we crazy?

Also a suggestion, to speed up the loading of DSL to a machine, you might want to try the VMware Server, it is free and you can run multiple configs of dsl to test with. Then when you have a working version, go through the hassel of setting it up on a stand alone system.

I think I am missing the boat...Sorry I do not have an answer to your question yet.

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ok I followed this ClarkConnect TS setup by Aw Phuch and finally got Teamspeak to work as "nobody" as per that pages instructions... Took 12 hours of my time today b/c of numerous snafus & restarts & reinstalls with frugal   K i feel stupid enough tyvm but I got it to work even spreading the opt & home directories to two different partitions. Anyway I ran thru the instructions to setup a Ventrilo server & for some reason i cannot get it to start as the user nobody using almost identical instructions to what was suggested on that webpage.  If I type in "sudo -u nobody <path to vent>/ventrilo-srv -d" to a regular term, as root no less, i get permission denied too!  I tried to put a similar line into /opt/bootlocal.sh but it kept spitting out an error that "sudo -u" was not a valid command?   So any help is appreciated. Aveline

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UNIX platform:    1) Upload the file to the machine that you plan on running the server on. This is only important if the host computer is not the same as the computer you are currently using.    2) Open a terminal window (telnet or OpenSSH) to the host computer that will be running the server.    3) Set your working directory to where ever you want to create the ventrilo directory.    4) Type "mkdir ventrilo"    5) Type "cd ventrilo"    6) Copy the tar.gz file into this new directory.    7) Type "gunzip " followed by the name of the tar.gz file.    8) Type "tar xf " followed by the name of the tar file. (gunzip removed the gz extension).    9) Note: Some platforms allow for combining steps 7 and 8 into a single command by typing "tar zxf " followed by the name of the tar.gz file.    10) Type: "./ventrilo_srv".

 Why are you using the -d flag??
It looks like the ventrilo_srv.ini is the ventrillo.conf file you need to edit to make it run, read the docs....and read the ventrilo_srv.htm for options to edit the ventrilo_srv.ini with

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Notice there is no space following the "-f" option. The above line assumes you are using the default file names. Now, lets assume you are running two servers on the same machine. Each server would need to have its own port number assigned to it. Thus, we recommend naming the files by the port numbers. To start both servers using the "-f" option you issue the following commands. /home/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv -f/home/ventrilo/3784 -d /home/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv -f/home/ventrilo/4000 -d

Ah it looks like in order to start as daemon mode you must specify the port in the startup string in order to initiate as daemon

hope that helps

Brian
AwPhuch