Re: Differences Using "civserver" VS "civserver -r civ1.serv"

Although, usr/local/share/freciv/ exists on my system. There was no
/usr/local/share/freeciv/data/. Moreover, copying data/civ1/*.rulesets
to /usr/local/share/freeciv did not make civserver -r civ1.serv work
correctly. Perhaps security is not correct. I'll investigate.

My only remaining question is the following: Obviously, "civserver" and
"civserver -r civ1.serv" use different rulesets--why? 

The description of the -r option does not 

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 19:58, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> Ed Earl Ross wrote:
> > Aparently, "civserver" and "civserver -r civ1.serv" use different
> > rulesets--why? 
> > The Freeciv manual states the following: 
> >         -r filename or --read filename
> > 
> > Specifies a file of server commands which the server will automatically
> > read and process, as if you had typed them in at the server's prompt.
> > The distribution has an example that sets options to be similar to
> > Civilization I, which the option -r /usr/local/share/freeciv/civ1.serv
> > would read.
> > 
> > I found /usr/local/share/freeciv/civ1/*.ruleset files, but no
> > data/civ1/*.ruleset.
> > 
> > When "civserver -r civ1.serv starts, it tells me the following:
> > Ruleset directory set to "civ1"
> 
> This is the /rulesetdir server command.  It's using the files in 
> /usr/local/share/freeciv/civ1/.
> 
> > I tried the following:
> > 	/home/edearl/civ1/*.ruleset
> > 	/home/edearl/data/civ1/*.ruleset
> > 	/home/edearl/.freeciv/civ1/*.ruleset
> > 	/home/edearl/.freeciv/data/civ1/*.ruleset
> > 	/home/edearl/.freeciv/server/civ1/*.ruleset
> > 	/home/edearl/.freeciv/server/data/civ1/*.ruleset
> > None worked.
> > 
> > Where should the rule sets be? 
> 
> In an unpacked source tarball, the rulesets are in data/.
> 
> Once you've installed it's in $prefix/share/freeciv/.  $prefix is 
> /usr/local by default.  But you know this already since you found those 
> files.
> 
> So what is your question?
> 
> jason
>