openarena-server(6)

openarena-server6

Openarena dedicated server

Usage

openarena-server [{-h | --help}] [{-q | --quiet}] [+set option value] ...

Overview

openarena-server is the dedicated server for the first-person shooter OpenArena.

Options

The wrapper script used for OpenArena in Debian accepts these options:

-h, --help

Display a short help summary

-q, --quiet

Disable all output

Any console command can also be prefixed with + and used as a command-line option (run the server in a terminal to use the console). The +set command is generally the most useful to use on the command line.

Options that can be set with +set (note that this is not a full list!) include:

capturelimit <value>

dedicated <bool>

fraglimit <value>

fs_basepath <string>

fs_game <value>

g_allowVote <bool>

g_banIPs <IP address>

g_doWarmup <bool>

g_friendlyFire <bool>

g_gametype <bool>

g_gravity <value>

g_inactivity <value>

g_maxGameClients <value>

g_motd <string>

g_needpass <bool>

g_password <string>

g_quadfactor <value>

g_weaponrespawn <value>

net_ip <IP adress>

net_port <value>

net_qport <value>

nextmap <string>

sv_allowDownload <bool>

sv_floodProtect <bool>

sv_fps <value>

sv_hostname <string>

sv_maxclients <value>

sv_maxPing <value> (Measurd in milliseconds)

sv_minPing <value> (Measurd in milliseconds)

sv_pure <bool>

timelimit <value> (Measured in minutes)

Environment

The wrapper script used to launch OpenArena allows it to be debugged by setting environment variables.

OPENARENA_DEBUGGER=command

A debugger or other prefix to prepend to the OpenArena command line, such as strace; overridden by OPENARENA_BACKTRACE

OPENARENA_BACKTRACE=1

Use gdb(1) to get a backtrace if OpenArena crashes (the gdb package must be installed for this to work)

Releases

9 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7–13

--help since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --quiet since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -h since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -q since Debian 7 (Wheezy).

Author

OpenArena was written by the OpenArena Team. The engine used is a modified ioQuake3, originally created by id Software and now maintained by the ioQuake3 community.

This manual page was written by Bruno "Fuddl" Kleinert <[email protected]> and Simon McVittie <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From openarena-server 0.8.8+dfsg-8 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.