[Guide]RunUO SVN & Debian Lenny

unixfreak · Oct 4, 2010

[Guide]RunUO SVN & Debian Lenny

What this guide will not cover:
The install of debain itself you can go to HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials there are plenty guides over there.

Requirements:
Debian netinstall cd (150mb) get it here Downloading Debian CD/DVD images via HTTP/FTP
20-60mins of your life(if all goes well)

So lets begin
Boot up your server and login with root (to setup basic stuff, then we will work with regular user)
Lets update our system

Code:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Next we going to install sudo

Code:

apt-get install sudo

when installed we are going to add our regular user to sudoers file
I'm going to use nano as texteditor

Code:

nano /etc/sudoers

What you will see is this

Code:

# /etc/sudoers
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

Defaults        env_reset

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
#Add your user here, you have created at install of debian
[COLOR="YellowGreen"]your_user_name    ALL=(ALL) ALL[/COLOR]
# Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password
# (Note that later entries override this, so you might need to move
# it further down)
# %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

We also going to need an ssh server, so we can remotly connect to our server and do stuff...

Code:

apt-get install openssh-server

After install, edit sshd_config , so root can't connect via ssh

Code:

nano /etc/ssh/shhd_config

You will have to edit line saying PermitRootLogin yes to PermitRootLogin no

Code:

# Authentication:
LoginGraceTime 120
PermitRootLogin no
StrictModes yes

Now we have up and running shh server and we can connect to it via other linux "desktop" machine or on windows machine via PuTTY Download Page
Logout from root account with

Code:

exit

Now connect via putty with your username you added to sudoers
Next we are going to install all needed packets for running runuo
First edit sources.list

Code:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following line to your sources.list

Code:

deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main

so it looks like this

Code:

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.6 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20100905-11:24]/ lenny main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.6 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20100905-11:24]/ lenny main

deb http://ftp.belnet.be/debian/ lenny main
deb-src http://ftp.belnet.be/debian/ lenny main

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
#mono rep
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main

Now update update repo

Code:

sudo apt-get update

Finaly we can install all needed packeges (one line

)

Code:

sudo apt-get -t lenny-backports install mono-devel libmono-winforms2.0-cil mono-2.0-service subversion

After install we are going to create some dirs

Code:

sudo mkdir /opt/runuo_svn
cd /opt/runuo_svn

get fresh copy of runuo svn

Code:

sudo svn checkout http://svn.runuo.com/repos/runuo/devel

lets export it

Code:

sudo svn export devel/ ../runuo_server/

Code:

cd ../runuo_server/Server

now compile

Code:

sudo gmcs -out:../runuo.exe -d:MONO -optimize+ -unsafe -recurse:*.cs

Code:

cd ..

create zlib config

Code:

nano runuo.exe.config

content of the .config file

Code:

<configuration>
<dllmap dll="libz" target="//usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3" />
</configuration>

create uo dir for ultima files

Code:

sudo mkdir /opt/runuo_server/uo

connect to server via sftp (use FileZilla - The free FTP solution) and upload the whole ultima dir to server
move files from uploaded dir to

Code:

sudo mv /home/duke/Ultima\ Online\ Stygian\ Abyss\ Classic/* /opt/runuo_server/uo/

now we will have to edit DataPath.cs

Code:

sudo nano /opt/runuo_server/Scripts/Misc/DataPath.cs

modd this line

Code:

private static string CustomPath ="/opt/runuo_server/uo”;

lets clean up

Code:

sudo apt-get clean

Moment of truth

Code:

sudo mono runuo.exe

create account login to world to test if all works then you can proceed to next step
shutdown runuo.exe (and kill any mono processes running

Code:

 ps -aux | grep mono

Code:

sudo kill #number

now when you close ur ssh connection it will also close runuoserver so we are going to run it as service

Code:

sudo mono-service2 runuo.exe

Thats all folks.
Hope this guide will help someone, if I will have some more free time I'll make similar guide for CentOS (as I saw someone mentioned it here on forums)

shtoink · Oct 13, 2010

Hey thanks for taking the time to write this. While not a linux noob, and not a runuo noob, I AM a runuo on linux noob and you have helped me.

Pure Insanity · Apr 27, 2011

Yes, I'm necroing a pretty old post. But my question is still valid and related.

We just recently purchased a dedicated server for our shard/site. I have experience with Linux, I have used it for many years. Compiled many applications on it. Then I went to drop RunUO on it today and realized that I have never had to compile anything on Linux to use multiple cores...is there an argument that I'm missing in the compile command? Our server is a quad core, and I'd really like to be able to use them...This is also my first time ever needing to use Mono on Linux. As I've never really had much demand for .net programs on Linux in the past before. Was hoping someone could push me in the right direction...

Lichtblitz · Apr 27, 2011

I don't know if the kind of functionality is completely implemented in Mono but if it is, RunUO automatically detects your CPUs and uses them at runtime. Multiple Threads are almost only used for performing a world save. Apart from that there's one thread that contains the main game loop and one that manages all the timers. This configuration is more than sufficient. RunUO is pretty light weight.

Pure Insanity · Apr 27, 2011

Yeah, I got it. Thanks for the help. And that's not true, as there are other threads that handle the network connections. Or else it wouldn't be very useful as an online game, as the world would freeze and stuff as the players got on and stuff, to make characters and what-not. At least that's how it appears in the source...

Only real roadblock I ran into was trying to remember the keyword to include assembly references when compiling. For those people that go to this thread in the future, all you do is change your compile command to this.

Code:

gmcs -out:../runuo.exe -d:MONO /reference:System.Drawing.dll,Ultima.dll -optimize+ -unsafe -recurse:*.cs

Note, you still may need to use sudo when you do it.

But the /reference part is needed to compile the newer svn.

Lichtblitz · Apr 28, 2011

Pure Insanity said:
And that's not true, as there are other threads that handle the network connections.

Have you looked it up? You will notice that packet management resides in the same thread as the main game loop. The .NET framework notifies it via callback. There are several bits and pieces where the server uses threads (like generating the compressed data stream for custom houses) but those threads are all generated regardless of the amount of CPUs you got.

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