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host them on rapidshare or mediafire or some such free service.

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I haven't been around the MaNGOS forums for a while, but let me re-iterate how thankful I am for your guide. It's great.

Side note: does anyone know how to convert a Xbuntu install into a Server install? Or really, just strip away the GUI. That'd work.

I thank you all very much for all of your hard work!

ScriptDev2 patch for 7812 is on the SD2 SVN. Should work now. However, I'm getting an error when using "git pull" to update my mangos file. It says

You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you
want to merge with, and 'branch..merge' in
your configuration file does not tell me either.  Please
name which branch you want to merge on the command line and
try again (e.g. 'git pull <repository> <refspec>').
See git-pull(1) for details on the refspec.

If you often merge with the same branch, you may want to
configure the following variables in your configuration
file:

   branch..remote = <nickname>
   branch..merge = <remote-ref>
   remote.<nickname>.url = <url>
   remote.<nickname>.fetch = <refspec>

See git-config(1) for details.

Git is far more confusing than subversion.

@balrok: Thanks.

The more you know!

Some suggestions:

- you aren't sending the process to the background, so there is no need for the if statement (which itself is also broken since the grep will see itself in the processlist and return true)

- shell scripts should generally have a .sh suffix

- the shebang is missing

- please use "while true" or "while :" instead of "while date" (date will generally return 0 so it will work. but it just doesn't make sense since the the loop isn't critically based on a working date binary , would be a shame if mangos doesn't start just because someone broke "date")

if all you want is a simple restarter that logs when it restarted, your script wound look fine like this:

#!/bin/bash

Daemon="worldd"

BinDir="/opt/MaNGOS/bin/"
LogDir="/opt/MaNGOS/log/"

if [[ $(ps -o command= -ae|egrep -c "[m]angos-${Daemon}") -gt 0 ]]
then
  echo "mangos-${Daemon} is already running, exiting"
exit 1
fi

######### End of Config ##########

while true 
do # loop forever
  echo "(re)starting server at $(date +"%m-%d-%H:%M-%S")>> ${LogDir}${Daemon}_restart_log.txt
nice -n 20 ${BinDir}mangos-${Daemon}
sleep 5
done

checking for running processes works a bit better if you have mangos configured to write pidfiles, then you just have to check if the pid in the file is actually running (e.g. by checking /proc/$pid/cmdline)

I appreciate this guide.

I'm currently using MaNGOS on my Mac, and every time I want to launch it I have to open up two iTerm windows and cd to the folder, then launch the applications. It's really a trivial task, but I think it would be better if I wrote a script to do it for me. I couldn't figure out where to start, so I thought maybe one of you had one already. If you don't, we could write one together! Here's the commands I need it to execute (in this order.):

Open a session (in iTerm)
"cd /opt/mangos/bin/"
"./mangos-realmd"
Open a second session in the same window as a new tab
"cd /opt/mangos/bin/"
"./mangos-worldd"

Best christmas present so far!

I have a Windows WoW installation on ym Macbook. As far as I can tell, the Windows and Mac installations only differ in Launcher.app+World Of Warcraft.app vs Launcher.exe and WoW.exe. Well, the Windows has a bunch of DLLs. Anyway, I need the working Launcher.app and World of Warcraft.app for 2.4.3, TBC, please.