SPADS AutoHost

[nixtux]

OMG OMG thank you, you deserve some cookies for this

[FabriceFABS]

Excellent... Very nice job.
Merci beaucoup et encore merci pour le support.

Fabrice

[bibim]

You're welcome, don't hesitate to ask if you need help with the upgrade process and new version configuration.

[Jools]

Same here. Vielen Dank für das ausständige Arbeit!

[Forboding Angel]

Your upgrade instructions are hard to follow, especially for anyone running multiple spads instances.

I made them marginally easier to parse: https://pastebin.com/FQsu1sbx

[Forboding Angel]

PSA: Atm it is impossible to get the 32bit version of activeperl (Which is what I've always used) from the ActiveState site. I don't know if it will stay like that, but in case anyone is worried, strawberry seems to work 100% perfectly.

[bibim]

PSA: Atm it is impossible to get the 32bit version of activeperl (Which is what I've always used) from the ActiveState site. I don't know if it will stay like that, but in case anyone is worried, strawberry seems to work 100% perfectly.

Indeed, ActivePerl download page seems to be missing 32bit versions currently. They are still available from official ActiveState download site though (ActivePerl 5.24 Win32 x86, ActivePerl 5.26 Win32 x86). Thanks for the information.

Anyway, as you said SPADS should work as well with Strawberry Perl as with ActivePerl.

[bibim]

Here are two diagrams to help autohost administrators understand how SPADS settings and presets are organized in the 3 main configuration files: spads.conf, hostingPresets.conf and battlePresets.conf. It is important to understand these 3 files contain different settings, you can't move settings from spads.conf to battlePresets.conf for example.

SPADS settings and presets structure
SPADS presets dependencies

The presets structures are just examples of course, lots of things are possible...

[bibim]

Experimental support for TLS has been added in SPADS 0.12.6 (only in "unstable" release for now).
You can try it by adding "lobbyTls=on" as command line parameter when launching SPADS.

[Jools]

Do we need out our certificates? I know that Let's Encrypt provides that...

[bibim]

Not sure if this answers your question, but afaik currently only (self-signed) server side certificates are used in lobby protocol encryption, so you don't need your own certificates to run a SPADS instance.
SPADS does the same as SpringLobby: it validates the server certificate based on a trusted certificate fingerprint.

[matyhaty]

im getting the following error in the install on new unbuntu:

NOTICE - [SpadsUpdater] Installing Spring 104.0.1-1888-g380151f into "/root/var/spring/104.0.1-1888-g380151f-linux64"...
ERROR - [SpadsUpdater] Failed to extract "/root/var/spring/104.0.1-1888-g380151f-linux64/spring_{develop}104.0.1-1888-g380151f_minimal-portable-linux64-static.7z", error while running 7zip (child process interrupted by signal 6, with coredump)
ERROR - [SpadsUpdater] Unable to extract Spring archive "/root/var/spring/104.0.1-1888-g380151f-linux64/spring_{develop}104.0.1-1888-g380151f_minimal-portable-linux64-static.7z"


Done the normal 7zip check / update....

IDeas?

@bibim