I have downloaded a half life dedicated server (hlds) file and a counter strike (cs) server file. The cs file ended in tar.gz and i was able to 'untar' it and that worked fine. The hlds file ended in 'bin'. I have tried to run it, untar it and gunzip it. None of it worked. Anyone any idea on how you install this type of file?

i think youdo chmod a+x filename to make it a tar.gz i dunno.. try that

no this way you don't "make it a tar.gz" you are actually setting up executable bit on it, so try
chmod 755 filename.bin and run it either
./filename.bin
or
sh filename.bin
Sometimes .bin files are just shell scripts.

Thanks for the replys guys :-)

the chmod 755 and the ./hlds.bin worked great.

Bill

onec u got it all uncompressed and its there u get to the dir and type ./hlds_run -game cs
./hlds_run -game dod
once it does that then type the map, like map dod_thunder, then it loads all its stufdf up
or whatever the name of the mod dir is. like i run a dod server on my mandrake system, but its kinda wack, because i can see it on a LAN game, and it even says won auth, like i authenticated with its master server, and has the addreses 198.74.32.53 and 2 others, definatly talkin to outside world..but when i try to join the game by my dsl address and not my priv addresss(behind router/firewall) but i think the reason i cant join by my public ip is because its klkinda goin back in on itself...anybody follow me or understand? and when it starts the game it always shows my loopback 127.0.0.1 and i can still see its 192.168.1.7 address?

im kinda confused guys im in the terminal right now and iv got the same .bin problem.now this chmod stuff where do i type it? do i do it in the terminal? someone gimme exact command plz. filename is hlds_1_3110_full.bin


Thanx help would be appreciated

i figured it out guys dont bother answering

hey ive only worked with linux for 2 days yet i love it 20X better than windows XP

i am real new to linux and am having problems i downloaded the ds_l_3110_full.bin file and what do i need to do with it to be able to run it

You guys are trying to set up game servers and you don't even know how to deal with the .bin files? lol.

Ok look, most of us are linux newbies just in it for the servers.
But in all the tutorials on installing this as a file only this was the one to do it as a .bin

I can see it in my linux server, you have to set up the permission of dod files such : shell script file, config file, hlds_run file and etc to exec or write to others or group (right click on the file).Hope this help.

dude your all all you have to do is burn it to a cdrom and then log on as root and access cdrom right click click open with and click run in terminal it will bring up a licensce agreement and all you do is type yes and it copys to root directory as a tar.gz file run that and your set