https://wiki-test.cross-fire.org/ 2026-04-14T05:39:37+00:00 https://wiki-test.cross-fire.org/ https://wiki-test.cross-fire.org/_media/wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2025-04-18T18:08:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki-test.cross-fire.org/server:running_the_server:0_index?rev=1744999685&do=diff Index of this namespace Running the Server * environment_variables CROSSFIRE_LIBDIR and such * etc_crossfire_configuration_files /etc/crossfire directory content * multiple_instances Having more than one server binary running * positional_parameters -help, -tmpdir and these * settings /etc/crossfire/settings file * signals kill signals to send to the running server binary text/html 2025-04-18T18:08:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki-test.cross-fire.org/server:running_the_server:compressed_map_files?rev=1744999686&do=diff Compressed maps files When operating the server , the Bigworld map files in CROSSFIRE_LIBDIR/maps can take up to 400 MB of space on the hard-disk. Until version 1.60.0 and below, the server is able to operate on compressed map files, which would then just take up the space of the compressed tarball they came in. text/html 2025-04-18T18:08:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki-test.cross-fire.org/server:running_the_server:environment_variables?rev=1744999686&do=diff Crossfire Server Environment Variables The crossfire server recognizes the following environmental variables; these should correspond to their positional parameters counterparts, and be overridden by those. * CROSSFIRE_LIBDIR -data ( /absolute/path/to/share/crossfire directory text/html 2025-04-18T18:08:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki-test.cross-fire.org/server:running_the_server:etc_crossfire_configuration_files?rev=1744999685&do=diff /etc/crossfire Configuration Files Directory List of files found in the {prefix}/etc/crossfire configuration directory, alphabetically ordered; except for the file, which is to be found at the bottom due to it's many entries. FIXME: These config files ought to have some text/html 2025-04-18T18:08:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki-test.cross-fire.org/server:running_the_server:multiple_instances?rev=1744999686&do=diff Running Multiple Instances of the Crossfire Server Running multiple instances of the server is possible, be it for debugging purposes or just for the personal experience. And my personal experience on a 2-Core Intel CPU with 2,67 GHz BIOS year 2008 is very pleasing: 8 instances were running, without much CPU-usage as shown by the text/html 2025-04-18T18:08:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki-test.cross-fire.org/server:running_the_server:positional_parameters?rev=1744999686&do=diff Running The Server : Startup Parameters When the server is started, it recognizes the following parameters; most of them have corresponding environment variables . _say_server_help(){ cat >&1 <<EoI The server does not recognize --long options. $CMDNAME -help Flags: -csport <port> Specifies the port to use for the new client/server code. -d Turns on some debugging. +d Turns off debugging (useful if server compiled with debugging as default). -detach The… text/html 2025-04-18T18:08:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki-test.cross-fire.org/server:running_the_server:settings?rev=1744999685&do=diff file:///etc/crossfire/settings Settings entries in the settings file of the server of Crossfire; usually located in the {prefix} /etc/crossfire directory. The settings are read and compared by the function static void load_settings(void) in the source code file text/html 2025-04-18T18:08:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki-test.cross-fire.org/server:running_the_server:signals?rev=1744999685&do=diff Kill Signals The crossfire main binary server handles several signals sent to it : * 1 SIGHUP * 2 SIGINT * 3 SIGQUT * 7 SIGBUS * 11 SIGSEGV * 13 SIGPIPE * 15 SIGTERM 1 Hang Up [SIG]HUP This signal forces the crossfire server unfortunately not to reload the configuration files,