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Hello,
my problem is
I need some advice to get a dedicated server running - not on my local PC, but on a root-server, which has no GUI
 
I..
.downloaded armyops250-linux.run and installed it in a users home
.installed the necessary 32 bit libs
.started server.bin

but it didn't show up in assist server browser
or is this ao-250-linux.run a dead end?

I don't really like to install X onto the root-server and start assist via X-remotely (that ssh -X thing:-)

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

ty - Let's pray he'll read this thread!

Thank you for the fast answer.
So there's no way around installing X on the server?
I'll have to bite that poisoned apple then 
with ssh -X ... you don't need vnc and a desktop environment (if you use linux) The Rootserver will open a X-session-window on the Linux-Desktop - works flawless. (not really assist thinks server is a mac and crashes then)

CLI would be really fine

X-ssh-forwarding doesn't work for me - it opens a assist25 window wich asks me if I have a PPC CPU - the server definitely isn't a mac and then assist crashes with a nil pointer:-)

I worked on a pure CLI install with the original armyops-linux.run as base
you have to put
-> all *.so and *.ini from assist/Server to foo/System (from a linux assist install :-)
-> copy pb files to foo/System/pb

the console output of that server looks like the output in the assist server console window, but it doesn't appear on the server list there :-( 

maybe i forgot sth to put into foo/System

a shellscript witch is downloading and installing all needed parts for assist server would be a solution.

hmm - lucky I - there's a 30 day eval of realbasic ...

As far as I understand the source - (My Basic skills stuck with CBM basic V2.0)
The Methods:
Instaa, updateme, getip, pbupdate, RunSrv, StopSrv,ReadQR in Assist
and
ReadQR in AssistQR
should be striped off the gui stuff into a commandline-friendly main() and packed into one .bin file, right?
did I miss dependencies?
can it be done with real basic?

Major - where's that piece of source?

If your willing to giveme  the login details for your server i will set it up for you on VNC.

Talk about program support

It's just a one off, If we get to busy I will train a team of people to do this for me.

interested  ;D ;D
i would do all to keep AA2 alive

you had open all ports?
maybe firewall block?

UDP ports explained:
1716 for the Game
1717 for the GameQuery
1718 for the Master Server Query
8777 for the Standard UT Query
27900 for GameSpy

TCP ports explained:
28910 for GameSpy
20025-45 for MBS Game Server
20046 for the Auth server
20047 for MBS
20048 for DCDS
14200 for LAN

think not all are needed now no more (20046 for the Auth server i think you dont need no more)