Headless server

I made a server on a spare machine on my network. It seems to work ok but if I tick the dedicated server box and then host the name of the server is changed in the matchmaker to "Headless Server". Also in the chatbox that pops up on the dedi server if I type anything it returns an error about the headless server not being a JSON array. Whatever that means. If I don't tick the dedi box the server seems to run normally with the correct name in the matchmaker.

Can anyone tell me what I did wrong there?

Oh and my MOTD doesn't display when I join the server?

 

I just tested this and I get the same thing. The server is named "Headless Server". I thought maybe it created a new plr file but I don't see anything new anywhere. It must be storing it's settings somewhere.

 

Ok cool not just me then. So I don't understand how there aren't more occurrences of this in the matchmaker, nobody else is running a dedi? Can't be surely?

 

ISI never explained how to use the console server so yeah, no one uses it. I was excited to see them add a console server. It think it would be easier to script and automate. But without some documentation it is useless.

 

Thanks for the explanation Noel. I still can't get my MOTD to display, bizarrely.

 

Where would it be on display? in the server browser it wont show by default I think. neither in the info box.

 

I think the MOTD is something just left over from rfactor 1, does nothing in rF2.

You need to get a 3rd party plug-in to get messages pop up when drivers enter room. Hope someone can find the link for you.

 

Oh ok cool. I didn't realize the mas2 tool came from rf1.

 

You said MOTD, not Mas2 You got me confused.

 

Sorry I mean the tool that launches the server, it has a box MOTD, the mas2 tool is something else I understand, it's all new to me, only looked at it for the first time over the weekend.

 

server message plugin:
http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.php/4472-Welcome-Message-plugin

Works very well, no hits on performance either.

Just one thing, it can screw up xml results.
one could edit the errors in the xml out manually (weird text from server message) but when xml files are used allot that could become tedious.
otherwise, great tool to communicate with peeps on the server.

 

Thanks Denstjiro the plugin works nicely. Not sure why it has to display the /w (/whisper) command at the beginning of each line. You would have thought that bit wouldn't show up.
Your posts have made getting a server up and running a fairly painless job.