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Date        : 2011/03/02 15:28
User        : leaf
Edit Summary: Format correction for Revision Aug 2010 section

@@ -233,11 +233,13 @@
  FIXME - Confirm which method should be used to launch the server and if there is a difference between Trunk and Branches/1.x
  
  FIXME -- How to use crossloop for running the server; crossloop is a script that automatically restarts the server if/when it crashes and can also provide useful debugging or error information from the crash event.
  
- \\ == Revision 2010 Aug == (still being tested)
- \\ 
- \\ crossfire-server will not run as root, but the above installation instructions make a var directory owned by root, so it will not be writable and the server cannot save player information, scores, etc... if you follow the instructions as presented.  The easiest fix is to make a directory var somewhere that is writable by the user that will be running crossfire then symbolically link /usr/games/crossfire/var to this directory.  As an example, you can make a user and group games (they already exist in most linux distributions) and then install a crossfire var directory in your system /var as follows:
+ == Revision 2010 Aug == 
+ 
+ (still being tested)
+  
+ crossfire-server will not run as root, but the above installation instructions make a var directory owned by root, so it will not be writable and the server cannot save player information, scores, etc... if you follow the instructions as presented.  The easiest fix is to make a directory var somewhere that is writable by the user that will be running crossfire then symbolically link /usr/games/crossfire/var to this directory.  As an example, you can make a user and group games (they already exist in most linux distributions) and then install a crossfire var directory in your system /var as follows:
  <code sh>
  $ sudo mkdir /var/games         # probably already exists
  $ cd /usr/games/crossfire/var
  $ tar cf - . | ( cd /var/games/ ; sudo tar xf - )


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