🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 04:41:03 +0000, Suddn wrote:

> I just setup Quake 3 on my Linux box after not playing it for a LONG time.  I
> upgraded to the newest point release and discovered a thing called punkbuster.
> 
> The problem is that it is disabled by default and unless I run Quake 3 as the
> root user I can't enable it.
> 
> It sounds like a permission thing to me.  Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks

If you have permissions set correctly as mentioned previously, and are using the
~/.q3a directory for each user, take a look at the below url on the punkbuster
forums. Problems with the pbcl.so file getting hosed joining a server prevents
PB from getting enabled, even if set from the command line or autoexec.cfg on
the next connection. I manually downloaded an update of the latest version of
PB, stuck it in a separate folder, and just added  "cp /otherfolder/pb/pbcl.so
.q3a/pb"  to the beginning of my q3-run script, which simply copies the good file
over the one that gets hosed in your ~/.q3a directory. Take a look inside of
~/.q3a/pb and see if the pbcl.so file is now 0 bytes, it should be 596.7 KB.

http://forum.evenbalance.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=32&t=1694&s=5b5ea38548f2f1a50b1e1744f3f274fb

copy and paste above url if it breaks....


HTH,
Impact