Auntie Mangos

In general updating MaNGOS includes both upgrading the source code, and also applying updates to your database. The most important thing is to update your MaNGOS databases using mysqldump or any other database backup software you prefer. Next you will have to chose if you want a manual update, or if you just want to upgrade to a newer release of UDB, say UDB revision 399. Both are possible, but work differently.

Also I do recommend to checkout the mysqldump command line options. There are quite a few helpful ones that make your database backups much more useable. E.g. you can dump each table on its own, if you desire to.

Dear BrainStorm, some of these errors you posted are the result of wrong database content, meaning that a row in a table e.g. is missing, or not needed, or contains wrong flags, etc. E.g. you posted 2011-03-19 19:34:49 >> Loaded 10 creature reactions at game events 2011-03-19 19:34:49 ERROR:`game_event_quest` game event id (9) not exist in `game_event` This tells you, that in the table game_event_quest a quest is listed which has a world event as condition which is not defined in your database table game_event. Usually you can take on such error messages word by word, since they pretty much tell you what is wrong. In many cases UDB/YTDB, or any other database provider may have a fix on their forums, and in some, you will have to browse our Wiki for database documentation and correct errors yourself. Should you have no idea how to do that, try learning SQL, which is the language used to describe the MaNGOS databases and their content.

Have fun

ACE_ROOT is not looking for the include directory. I assume that is your issue here. ACE_ROOT is the directory below which the /include and /lib directory containing ACE are to be found. If ACE is in /usr/local/lib, and /usr/local/include, ACE_ROOT should be /usr/local.

None of us has any administrative duties on UDB, so we can't fix the UDB site either.

At first look, it may be only server software. But I think what really defines MaNGOS is that we constantly over five years adhered to principles of valuing education above everything else. MaNGOS may be legacy, but IMHO it is worth to keep. Dropping MaNGOS from the foundation would be like dropping Mozilla from the Mozilla foundation. MaNGOS always was and will be more than just the game server, since it already started out to be more like another server project. And that is something to be proud of in these days. This and our history is the reason, why a MaNGOS foundation could be as great as a Mozilla Foundation, and probably even better. Knowledge and education is probably the only resource which is existent without natural limits, but it is limited by law and companies. Removing those limits is something that our children will benefit from.

You do have your very own user page on the Wiki, on which you can edit as you wish, and even create sub-pages, and test translations, etc. E.g. mine is here if you are looking for an example.

There is e.g. IDA Pro. Wikipedia also offers a bit more insight on this tool.

That smells like an issue with the URL rewriting I have added to the forums for having urls instead of query strings. Thanks for the report!

If you can link me some posts, where you see this happening, I can hunt it down.

Just a quick note: a port for mangos zero is coming, too. Awesome patch. I'd love to see more reports of people trying this one.

In this case, it is a custom plugin we have been building recently to prevent further crap. Custom watch dog to eat on the 500 spammer accounts we usually have to kill weekly. This way we can catch em, prevent damage, and just batch delete them.

Greetings, within the next few weeks, we will deploy an update to the forum which prevents new users from adding signatures ar website links, unless they have contributed with topics or posts on these forums. Due to the increasing amount of account creations for the purpose of commercial link building we will implement restrictions. This change will allow us to more effectively filter out the spam, and ensure a spam, and advertisement free forum in the future. With kind regards, the mildly pissed off tech bot

Use the Windows command line shortcut from your startmenu. CD to the WoW client directory and manually execute ad.exe. This way you will see what is going on. Frame 4.0??? If you talk about .net 4.0, mangos is no .net application

You can not create the map files without the ad tool. If you want to get help, provide a copy of the error message you get. Without it, no chance

Oh my god, folks. The last four weeks have been damn heavy on the site. We're $95 over the usual bill due to spending almost double the usual traffic aka we've crossed the line to 2.5TB bandwidth in December.

Good question actually. Should probably move over.

Damn it, thats the result of splitting things up into too many parts. I was actually mixing up a discussion I had with yehonal regarding mangos-zero, and this post by him, combined with an email which led me to the conclusion things already had been discussed and stamped.

Oh that is not yours? My fault. I really assumed that this was yours.

ofc done

Forgot to mention: I have added commit groups for each repository, thus those who want to work on multiple repositories, raise a hand and tell me which ones, or message TheLuda on github.

I have added a repository for mangos-zero here: https://github.com/mangos/zero. I also added a repository for the 0.12 branch here: https://github.com/mangos/one. I have not used any expansion names but simply expansion numbers (avoiding trademarked names). Update mangos-zero repository is populated, the mangos-0.12 branch has been moved into its own repository, too.

May I ask why you are looking for a full dump?

My suggestion would actually be: - the current mangos repository should become a place for 4.0.x development. - add three new repositories: one for vanilla, BC, and WotLK. Thus: mangos/mangos always is current WoW version.