15 Jul 11, 11:45AM
Frogulis did what he shouldn't have (IMHO), he took you by the hand.
But now we've actually gotten the real problem out of you .. like, my question now is - why didn't you mention this error-message before? .. and it's even worse - this isn't an AC problem at all, it's a problem of you properly using your machine.
AFAIK the Mac-Package resembles a folder on your machine, which you seem to be wanting to edit in - but you should be editing in your personal-game-directory. To locate this you can use the launcher's menu and select "go to private files" (or something similar). Then place your servercmdline.txt into the config-subfolder there; when launching your server you need to pass the (full) path to that file.
Let's assume your personal directory is in /home/alex/.assaultcube_v1.1, and you put your server-commandline-config into /home/alex/.assaultcube_v1.1/config/alex.servercmd.txt. So - then you go and launch your server and pass it -C/home/alex/.assaultcube_v1.1/config/alex.servercmd.txt.
Adapt the paths to what you actually find - this was an example, it's basically what it'd be like on linux, but Mac OS X has many parallels, so I hope it'll be helpful enough.
Naturally, I'd much appreciate if someone who actually uses Mac themselves and maybe even has had experience with hosting a server from it could fill in some more details about the paths; and/or fix any mistakes I may have made by assuming Mac OS X behaves in any way which it in reality might not.
Lastly, I need to stress this point: If you have so much trouble with these low-level aspects of using your computer, I highly recommend that you forget about hosting a server. There are risks involved when opening any machine, even in the slightest way, to the interwebs. Especially if you do something wrong and don't just open the ports for AC! Like, disabling your firewall completely - that'd be a bad idea and might lead to your machine being compromised. We can't be responsible for that; so I'm trying to make you see the danger here in the hope that you accept that there are way more than enough servers out there already.
Not to mention the fact that most home connections don't allow for more than a handful of players before the bandwidth requirements spell mega-LAG for everyone involved!
still - HTH
But now we've actually gotten the real problem out of you .. like, my question now is - why didn't you mention this error-message before? .. and it's even worse - this isn't an AC problem at all, it's a problem of you properly using your machine.
AFAIK the Mac-Package resembles a folder on your machine, which you seem to be wanting to edit in - but you should be editing in your personal-game-directory. To locate this you can use the launcher's menu and select "go to private files" (or something similar). Then place your servercmdline.txt into the config-subfolder there; when launching your server you need to pass the (full) path to that file.
Let's assume your personal directory is in /home/alex/.assaultcube_v1.1, and you put your server-commandline-config into /home/alex/.assaultcube_v1.1/config/alex.servercmd.txt. So - then you go and launch your server and pass it -C/home/alex/.assaultcube_v1.1/config/alex.servercmd.txt.
Adapt the paths to what you actually find - this was an example, it's basically what it'd be like on linux, but Mac OS X has many parallels, so I hope it'll be helpful enough.
Naturally, I'd much appreciate if someone who actually uses Mac themselves and maybe even has had experience with hosting a server from it could fill in some more details about the paths; and/or fix any mistakes I may have made by assuming Mac OS X behaves in any way which it in reality might not.
Lastly, I need to stress this point: If you have so much trouble with these low-level aspects of using your computer, I highly recommend that you forget about hosting a server. There are risks involved when opening any machine, even in the slightest way, to the interwebs. Especially if you do something wrong and don't just open the ports for AC! Like, disabling your firewall completely - that'd be a bad idea and might lead to your machine being compromised. We can't be responsible for that; so I'm trying to make you see the danger here in the hope that you accept that there are way more than enough servers out there already.
Not to mention the fact that most home connections don't allow for more than a handful of players before the bandwidth requirements spell mega-LAG for everyone involved!
still - HTH