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Date        : 2014/08/25 03:43
User        : saru
Edit Summary: added suggestion for when chown fails to correctly assign permissions and loses ln -s for maps as occurred today using ubuntu server 14.

@@ -196,8 +196,9 @@
  
  **Optional:** To enforce the unit test or check when compiling the server, use make -k check
  
    $ ./configure && make -k check && make install
+ 
  
  ==== LAUNCH ====
  
  Once the server has been successfully built (aka compiled), you need to launch the Crossfire Server application
@@ -220,8 +221,16 @@
  
    $ ./crossfire-server &
  
  What that command will do is run the Crossfire server and return you back to bash or shell prompt
+ 
+ === failure to launch ===
+ If crossfire-server is unable to locate the maps file it may be because the chown command didn't work. A simple fix is to:
+ 
+   $ sudo chown -R <username>.<username> /usr/games/crossfire/
+   $ ln -s /home/crossfire/maps.svn /usr/games/crossfire/share/crossfire/maps
+ 
+ Note, great care should be taken in using chown -R as this will change all permissions in the parent directory (e.g. if you sudo chown -R <username>.<username> / you will break you linux install
  
  === Launch, Part2 ===
  
  


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