This is my command line now that I have treid to use before adding my info to it : Can someone point me in the right direction so as to get this going in game panel if possible via a coammand line(argument). I see alot of info for linux but not alot for win2k3. I use game panel to control all my servers that I have runnnig plus TS2 servers. Have lots of experience admining UT2K4 but notta for Quake. Have the game running on my desktop in my server would like to make it a a service. Trying to learn to admin a Q4 server on a Win2k3 ded box. I'ts really good way, i mean if you want to run three 1on1 servers, then every server can use the same cfg, every server will use the same installment, and when you need to upgrade your servers, then you have to upgrade only once and it applys to all servers. It's really easy and works well in q3 I haven't looked how we have done q4 servers but i see no reason why q4 wouldnt be possible to run multiple servers under one user just like that. So starting all the servers is just one line ('screen -c serverstartupfile' ) to the console. We have even a file for screen running, that automatically starts screen, creats different console for each server, renames the console and starts servers. then just run screen and open different console inside screen for every server and run it. Inside startupscript you need do define different ports and stuff like that. One script for every server you want to run. In we use following scheme in q3: One q3 user, put q4 in that users homedir and create different startupscripts within q4 folder. Isn't it possible to do with screen alone? Hope that makes sense, if not just shout. Saves a lot of space only having one copy of all the paks etc, and you can have separate logfiles etc. So basically you end up with a skeleton folder with your configs and logs and punkbuster, and then links to the games folder with all the larger files. (I think some dists don't have lndir (links everything recursively), but you can download it or use ln -s if necessary just I find lndir fast).

You probably want to create indidual copies for pb as well as you typically don't want 4 servers trying to update pb and overwriting each others files at the same time. I just then unlink the startfile (with the port set in it) and config and then run it, copy/edit the original so it fs_basepath/savepath point to q4server2 for logs etc. Then I create a folder for each account like /home/q4server1 then I simply do an lndir /games/quake4 /home/q4server/quake4 which mirrors but linked all the files.

What I personally do is create a folder like /game/quake4 which has all the core files and structure and q4base in that will have all the big pak files (saves multiple copies later).

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