Tribes as a service

[Durt 2]

How do I set up a tribes dedicated server (or any .exe) as a service in w2k server?

 

Any help would be appreciated, thanks....

[kenshin 0]

Why are you asking a game-specific (Starseige Tribes) question in here?

 

But I'm a Tribes player so here:

 

Running a Tribes dedicated server should be the same in Win2000 as in Win9x/NT.

 

At the command line, go to the Tribes directory, and type:

 

infiniteSpawn *tribes +exec serverConfig -dedicated

 

Alternatively, you can create a shortcut that runs this command line.

 

Make sure that you've configured the serverConfig.cs file.

 

You can get more info on Tribes at: www.tribesplayers.com or www.planetstarseige.com

 

 

 

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Cheers,

kenshin

[Durt 2]

That doesn't set up tribes as a service. The instuctions you gave just starts the server.

 

Anybody else? There has got to be a wizard for this. I am just too blind to see.

[TrojanFOE 0]

I won't be possible to turn the .EXE into a Service unless it's been specifically written as a Service. There is a program that can be used to wrap around any exe (distributed as part of the Resource Kit) but it's doesn't work very well IMHO.

 

Why do you want it to run as a Service ? If you can secure your machine you could make it auto-logon and have the Tribes server run during startup; if it's resilence you're looking for.

 

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Andy Duplain <andy@trojanco.demon.co.uk>

[Durt 2]

Thanks for the reply, what you described is pretty much what I am doing currently. Thanks for the info about starting up a service, gives me another option. I hope I can figure it out.