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[Mazter]

Hi,

I have been playing sshfs to monitor a remote server with b3. It works, but is kinda weird. If I mount with sshfs the remote game server dir in the box where b3 is running and then send a command from the game, for example !time, b3 will see the command like after two or three minutes. BUT, if I do a tail/cat/more of the game log file in the sshfs'ed mounted  directory then b3 will inmediately see the command in the log and respond. If I leave a tail -f game.log running then b3 will work perfectly, and when stopped it then b3 will again start to react two or three minutes after. I think this has to do with sshfs asynchronous or cached reads, but I have tried all options of sshfs to try to avoid this with no luck, like no_readahead, cache=no, cache_timeout=0 and sync_read.

Has anyone used sshfs? how should it be run to avoid this problem?

Thanks

[Mazter]

Got it working

The magic parameters are direct_io and cache=no. It works like a charm. You will mount it like this:

Code:

sshfs -odirect_io,cache=no urban@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/home/urban/UrbanTerror servers/remote_server/

To avoid having to enter the remote user password each time you mount the remote dir you will have to generate a ssh key pair with the ssh-keygen command and upload the public key to the game server .ssh/authorized_keys file.

I hope this helps.

[xlr8or]

Nice! Deserves a sticky.

[GrossKopf]

Wow. All that stuff hurts my head.

I've never been a fan of Linux.

[Mazter]

I've never been a fan of Linux.

I'm really sorry for you, you don't what you are missing

[grosbedo]

Nice one ! One additional way to make B3 work remotely