ALIEN-ARENA-SERVER(6)

👽✨ ALIEN-ARENA-SERVER — the dedicated-server wrapper bestie 💖

okay so real quick, this is the manual page for alien-arena-server from the Games Manual section (section 6, iykyk), and it's basically your group-chat-approved guide to yeeting an Alien Arena dedicated server into the world and keeping it alive. let's get into it 🫶

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🎀 NAME

alien-arena-server — a wrapper script to run an Alien Arena dedicated server. that's it, that's the whole job description 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS

alien-arena-server [OPTIONS] [PARAMETERS]...

Available options. no cap, here they all are:

[-h|--help] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--service] [-k|--kill] [-Q|--query]
[-r|--rcon]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the alien-arena-server command. short and sweet, but with lore ✨

alien-arena-server is a wrapper script used for running and maintaining Alien Arena dedicated servers. it's giving backstage manager energy honestly — it calls other scripts ('launch-server', 'kill-runaway-crded', 'svstat', and 'rcon') depending on which option is chosen. and it also calls the 'alienarena-ded' binary itself if -q, --quiet, or no option is used. so like, no option = it just runs the thing. main character behaviour fr fr 💜

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💖 OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). A summary of options is included below. obsessed, let's go one by one 🌈

• -h, --help — Show summary of options. the "help me bestie" button, iconic 👑
• -q, --quiet — Disable console output. Only used when calling the 'alienarena-ded' binary itself. so it shuts up, but only in that specific context, okay? 🤫
• -s <configfile>, --service <configfile> — Calls 'launch-server', which is a shell script designed to emulate running alienarena-ded as a persisant service under linux using a server configuration file <configfile>.

/usr/share/games/alien-arena/arena/server.cfg is a suitable <configfile> that is already installed with the alien-arena-data package. <configfile> can be specified as a path inside the .alien-arena directory which is a directory inside your home directory <$HOME/.alien-arena>. <configfile> can also be specified by its full path in this system. ✨

ngl, "persisant" is spelled exactly like that in the original and i refuse to gaslight you, so there it is. accuracy slay 💀

• -k, --kill — Calls 'kill-runaway-crded', which is a shell script to kill all dedicated server processes. Useful when a server session was started with -s or --service option. the cleanup era 🔥
• -Q, --query — Calls 'svstat' which is a ruby script that will query local servers and produce some nice output for server admins. cute little status report for the admins, we love that for them 🍓
• -r <server:port> password <commandstring>, --rcon <server:port> password <commandstring> — Calls 'rcon' which is a ruby script that sends rcon commands to servers. <server:port> is the IP address and port number of the server. "password" is the password on the server. <commandstring> is any rcon commands to pass to the server. remote control but make it unix 💅

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🌟 PARAMETERS

[PARAMETERS] could be any parameter that can be passed to the script that will be called or the binary 'alienarena-ded'. For example, when using the -s or --service option, <configfile> is a parameter. Below is a list of the available parameters for each option. per-option receipts, as promised 🧚

• -s, --service [PARAMETERS] — <configfile> - Any acceptable server configuration file such as /usr/share/games/alien-arena/arena/server.cfg.
• -r, --rcon [PARAMETERS] — <server:port> password <commandstring> - <server:port> is the IP address and port number of the server. "password" is the password on the server. <commandstring> is any rcon commands to pass to the server.

When calling the 'alienarena-ded' binary itself, any series of console codes can be passed to it. Alien Arena uses Quake 2 based console codes. A listing of these codes can be found at:

<http://console.planetquake.gamespy.com/commands/quake_2.html>

Most of the codes described at this webpage will work for Alien Arena. so like, mostly a full send, but "most", okay? not all of them, don't come for me 😭

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🌈 AUTHOR

See the copyright </usr/share/doc/alien-arena-server/copyright> for contributers to Alien Arena. (yep, "contributers" — keeping it exactly as it lives in the original, no editing the lore 💜)

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⭐ COPYRIGHT

This manual page was written by Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one comes from the Games Manual, dated June 14, 2007 — yes, 2007, vintage, retro, actually iconic. slay, go run a server 🎀🦋