Guide - Starting COD4 Linux Dedicated Server?

Disable SELinux

Copy the contents of the DVD to a folder on your Server, in this example /home/cod4/

Download the latest binaris for cod4 and extract them in /home/cod4/
http://treefort.icculus.org/cod/cod4-linux-server-12032007.tar.bz2

Run the PunkBuster install
./pbsetup.run -e
./pbsetup.run --add-game=cod4 --add-game-path=/home/cod4/
./pbsetup.run -u

Create a configfile for your server in /home/cod4/main
http://www.mycallofduty.com/COD4/Server_CFGs.zip
Yopu must edit
IP
port
servername
rcon password

Create a file named start.sh
#!/bin/bash
cd /root/cod_servers/cod4

# Start server now!
screen -A -m -d -S cod4 /home/cod4/cod4_lnxded +set dedicated 2 +exec server.cfg +set sv_punkbuster 1 +map_rotate

Create a file called stop.sh
#!/bin/sh
screen -S cod4 -X quit

Create a file called resart.sh
./stop.sh
./start.sh

Create a file called status.sh
screen -x cod4

chmod +x on those files

Open port 20800 20810 28960 in your firewall/iptables

Type ./start.sh and yorr server is up and running

If you want you can set up so te server is streaming to one of this.
http://www.game-violations.org/
http://www.punksbusted.com/
http://www.pbbans.com/

Here is the mailing list archive for cod4 and Linux
http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?38

Here is a more advanced screen script for starting/stoipping your server

http://icculus.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-cgi?38:mss:8954:200712:nnjgpmgjohcnogakmmfd

Here you can look on reported bugs for linux and cod4
http://bugzilla.icculus.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__all__&product=Call+of+Duty+4&content=