nuclear Posted April 10, 2002 Share Posted April 10, 2002 What are the chances anyone plans to make an admin program that actually does some decent admin functions? For example, I'd like to see what's happening on the server from a remote location. The only kicker I've seen with something like WAB is the fact that 1) It has to be installed on the server and 2) it requires access to the games.log. I guess basically what I would like to see is a true remote console...something that could display realtime info similar to the actual console (Mainly what people say, join/part, etc.) with the obvious ability to issue normal console commands. The only way I see this happening is having a bot of some sort join as a spectator, relaying and parsing the information to a remote display; at least unless it would be possible to create a server side mod to accomplish the same thing...but, of course, that requires the code which we don't have yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatrixCPA Posted April 10, 2002 Share Posted April 10, 2002 Are you looking at a linux or winblows server environment? If you are on linux, telnet (ssh) works great for me. If you are on a win system, there's always pc anywhere type software. Regardring WAB type bots, I'm not sure what the concern about access to the games.log would be. I can understand that people are apprehensive about putting 3rd party software next to their server....but when it's released, the code comes right along with it. If someone tried to put a backdoor or something nasty in there, people will find it fairly quickly. If you just don't want to generate a log file for space reasons, that could be an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuclear Posted April 10, 2002 Author Share Posted April 10, 2002 Well this was just a general scenario, because I've been asked the same thing on a daily basis on my own servers. It is a fairly desired option as far as I can tell, and I personally see the need for something like this because I've got rcon on some servers and control of the config files, but really nothing more...and having log files upwards of 300mb in a week isn't really a good idea in certain situations. It would be more convenient just to be able to grab information from the game and log it at a better location. Basically I have a vision of a true remote console that would not require any modification on the server side. If nobody is planning such a tool I may look into playing around with the idea myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatrixCPA Posted April 10, 2002 Share Posted April 10, 2002 Personally, I overcame the "mongo log file" problem by having a cron job run once a day that stops WAB, rotates out the log file, renames it based on the date and compresses it, then restarts WAB. That way WAB is happy and I have my logs stored up for future stats processing (or reprocessing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waar Posted April 11, 2002 Share Posted April 11, 2002 Did you consider running a VNC server? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellfireSK Posted April 12, 2002 Share Posted April 12, 2002 Use this: http://www.planetquake.com/qxadmin It's old, but it works. Change the port to 28070 or whatever you are using and set it to q3a and it will give you a nice little gui to play with. The source is also there just in case anyone wants to make it JK2-native. -h Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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