Newbie Help: Modern Setup Guide?

[prickle]

to get private login working properly you'll need to nab a couple of extra libraries.

There's a script called "getlibs" on the Ubuntu forums that will help. Google "ubuntu getlibs" the first search result will be a link to a forum post with a direct link to download it. To make grab the libraries for privatelogin you'll do the following:
.save the getlibs script to your privatelogin server directory (mine is in <eq server dir>/private )
.make the script executable with:

chmod +x getlibs

.run the script with:

sudo getlibs privatelogin

Since Mint is a Debian derivative, I assume the default installation does not allow you to log in as the root user, and you need to sudo or su to perform root functions. The script needs to be run as root because it will download and install the appropriate library packages to make privatelogin work for you.

When you run the start script, it sets the world and zone servers to run in background, and then sends their output to log files in the <server dir>/logs/ directory. To see your server output when you use the start script you can do:

tail -f logs/eqemu_debug_world.log

That's the log file I watch when I start my server.

The rules errors that I'm seeing in your world output indicates to me that you've compiled with -DBOTS. Is this correct?

If so, you still need to source in the bots.sql file to make those particular errors go away.

The last error in the output is telling you that it cannot connect to the login server. Once you've gotten the login server that last error will go away.

[arggonuts]

Still have the bots error stuff and my inability to figure out how to connect to myself. I haven't read much on this because I didn't expect to make it this far.

So yes, when running the start script, I see:

World has connected with account name: ken

This kind of confuses me. I was under the assumption that the account I created during all this would be the one I use to login from the launchpad. Anyways, if you feel like posting about this last bit, I'd greatly appreciate it, but until then I'll be diving into wikis and google to figure it out.

[arggonuts]

I got the maps thing figured out. Things can be pretty touchy. My folder was "maps" where it needed to be "Maps". Derp on me. EDIT: Oh the other thing I figured out was I had nothing in the plugins folder. Somewhere along the lines, I didn't copy them from the quests directory. That probably fixed the GM things.

Anyways, I STILL have the bot issue, I'm not sure what's going on with that. I'm going to try to resource, but I doubt that will solve anything. Really don't know what's going on with it. Everything seems to be in order, but perhaps I should check my punctuation. Regardless, thanks for all your help. I'll be leaving tomorrow, so downloads will be out of the question, but I will still be able to access the forums.