New Linux Server Guide

[Dr Zauis]

Spelling and grammar are fine my friend!

Ive been reading the tutorial on and off all night. I would not have suspected you do not speak English as your native language.

In fact I am so inspired by the tutorial I have decided to try it and hopefully finally I will have a server that doesnt crash all the time or at least as not as much as it does under WinXp!

Oh boy..Ive never even seen anything running on linux but I dont care how hard or how much work its gonna take. If I get it going and it runs maybe a week or so without a world.exe or zone.exe crash Im gonna jump up and down like Rumplestilskin!

EDIT>>> And Thank You Very Much!!!

[eq4me]

Originally Posted by Dr Zauis

Spelling and grammar are fine my friend!

Ive been reading the tutorial on and off all night. I would not have suspected you do not speak English as your native language.

In fact I am so inspired by the tutorial I have decided to try it and hopefully finally I will have a server that doesnt crash all the time or at least as not as much as it does under WinXp!

Oh boy..Ive never even seen anything running on linux but I dont care how hard or how much work its gonna take. If I get it going and it runs maybe a week or so without a world.exe or zone.exe crash Im gonna jump up and down like Rumplestilskin!

EDIT>>> And Thank You Very Much!!!

You are welcome.
I would advise you to get the free VMWare Server edition to try things out. In fact the Debian and Fedora installations I based my guide on are also VMWare machines. If I didnt made a mistake somewhere in the guide and the install/compile fails you simply can copy over your exisiting eqemu_config.xml and change the database host entry to the LAN IP of your existing Windows MySQL installation.

See the older Linux guides for how to start up EQEmu.

EDIT: Oh, and thanks to the one who fixed my Wiki problem.

[Angelox]

I don't want to start a "bashing" thread here , so I'll just stop at, "Linux is just as good as Windows" - I tried a Linux server once, but was having problems and was more interested in learning the EqEmu DB than spending time solving Linux propblems.
One thing I think everyone should know especially the younger people; If you learn Linux, you'll have everything free: No more boot-legging or pirating becuase you're broke - it's all free and open source. And don't think becuause it's free, it inferior.
I want to try a Linux server again in a few days, I use Mandrake (Mandriva), but I guess I could use Ferdora so I can try out your new WikI - The old Wiki was a little "shady" in some areas, and I ended up searching for answers everywhere on occasions.

[eq4me]

With Madriva 10.2 you should be fine. It uses MySQL 4.1 and gcc 3.4 You just have to find the equivalents to the Fedora RPMs needed and install them. If thee are compile errors snap&paste me the error messages. I'll have a look into it then.

Yes, Linux is free and imho as good or better as Windows for most things.
But in the hands of someone who is careless or doesnt want to think things through it can be also a recipe for dissaster. There are virtually no "Do you really want to do that?" saveguards when you are root.

There is an old joke among Unix Sysadmins
Once upon an time in an Unix Adminstration course with ten students.
Instructor: And if you want to read mail really fast type rm -rf /*
Nine out of ten students are laughting, one of then had to reinstall his Notebook.

[wize_one]

if you want to dig deeper in the linux world, try gentoo (www.gentoo.org ) for your distro. you install only what you want-need, bo bloating of a system. just be prepared to read and re-read for installing.

[Angelox]

Originally Posted by eq4me

With Madriva 10.2 you should be fine. It uses MySQL 4.1 and gcc 3.4 You just have to find the equivalents to the Fedora RPMs needed and install them. If thee are compile errors snap&paste me the error messages. I'll have a look into it then.

Yes, Linux is free and imho as good or better as Windows for most things.
But in the hands of someone who is careless or doesnt want to think things through it can be also a recipe for dissaster. There are virtually no "Do you really want to do that?" saveguards when you are root.

There is an old joke among Unix Sysadmins
Once upon an time in an Unix Adminstration course with ten students.
Instructor: And if you want to read mail really fast type rm -rf /*
Nine out of ten students are laughing, one of then had to reinstall his Notebook.

I trouble shoot and repair PC's (for a hobby now days) - as a result, I have years of parts laying around, I've been able to build whole PC's from scrapped parts. I always hated spam, and years ago , there was very little spam control on the ISP's mail servers - so I started my own email server, which eventually, I could not afford under windows and went Linux (Mandrake seemed to be the easiest for a windows drop-out at the time). It's been over six years now, and I have really learned a lot -glad I made the change (and stuck with it).
Glad to see your helping out with the Linux, I forgot what my problem was when I did my install, but I'll run it by you when I get there again.