Linuxgsm: permission issues found gmod server

[pab14567]

So ive created everything, i've uploaded everything and whenever i try to start the gmod server, under the garrysmod username, it keeps saying perrmission denied. User does not have access to filse () then it shows every file in garrysmod. This happened after i started server once and stopped it and a tutorial said to put sv.db and data folder to 755

[UltimateByte]

Protip if you did crap with permissions :
chown -R * username:username
Google about chown if needed.

[pab14567]

Thank you so much, I'm sorry to waste your time, about this.

[UltimateByte]

No problem about it. If i had no time at all i wouldn't answer. :p
You'd rather be sorry to use github instead of the steam group for this kind of issue ! :p

[pab14567]

wait, what is this supposed to do ?
chown -R * username:username

and what am i supposed to do ?

[dgibbs64]

man chown

chown - change file owner and group

change owner and group recursively e.g

chown -R * username:group

chown -R /home/csgoserver csgoserver:csgoserver

[pab14567]

For the username:group do I put the main core username and the garrysmod group like root:garrysmod?

or do i leave it as it is, and same with the csgoserver part, do i just put gmodserver on both parts?Sorry, I'm kinda new to this

[UltimateByte]

Any user has a group created with it. In your case, you want files to belong to your user and group. Certainly not to root.
So as we said, for example, if your username is gmodserver :
chown -R /home/gmodserver gmodserver:gmodserver

This kind of things would not be necessary if you didn't mess up with permissions. So if i were you, i'd also search where i messed up with it in the first place. Anyways, if you're new to Linux, it's good thing to master chown and chmod, so it's a good time to do so.

Does it answer your question ?

[pab14567]

This all happened after a tutorial said to put sv.db and and data folder to 755.

[UltimateByte]

Then sv.db should have been the only file affected.
By the way, sv.db is not something you'd like to share or take from elsewere, it contains a lot (if not every in some cases) of data from your personal gmod server. So hopefully you just put a backup or your old sv.db or you could get rekt.

[pab14567]

Yeah, I know about the data, in it

here's the link to the tutorial that said to change the file permissions to 755

[pab14567]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=555696186

[UltimateByte]

When a tutorial advises a VPS for a game server, run away. lol

"If your server is going to be for around 42-64 people then I recommend going with:
2 high spec intel xeon V-Core (3.2GHz +)"

Lol, 2 CPU for a monothreaded process.

"you may notice that nothing saves (if you have already launched the server). This is because of permissions, so what you need to do is use the SFTP program to edit the permissions of the data folder and sv.db file to 755"

This is complete bullshit.

However, if your FTP program is correctly set, changing permissions won't affect ownership.

Didn't read a lot from this tutorial, but it seems like it contains a lot of bullshit. I wouldn't learn from that.

For linux system admin, search better tutorials. For Instructions about LGSM, they are given on gameservermanagers.com's game page, and we got a pretty well ellaborated wiki here to learn the basics and go further : https://github.com/dgibbs64/linuxgsm/wiki
For gmod specific stuff, such as mounting css content to your server, then you can use LGSM too, just make another user, i usually make an "srcds" user with a subfolder by game content i wanna mount. Then you just edit mount.cfg accordingly. Pretty straight forward.
To conclude, there is not any point where you gotta change chmod or chown if you do things properly.

[pab14567]

So basically, cause im fucked now, i just re-install everything, i just delete all those files, or re-install the vps ?

[UltimateByte]

Just login as root and apply the chown command we told several times. Permissions issue will disappear.

[UltimateByte]

Anyways, in order to be a good admin, i'd suggest to get some Linux knowlege, try stuff, fuckup and reinstall a test machine, before getting into something more serious.

[pab14567]

Im still a bit confused on the chown commands. Do i just copy paste? the new username i created for the gmod server is called garrysmod, so do i just replace

chown -R /home/gmodserver gmodserver:gmodserver

with chown -R /home/garrysmod garrysmod:garrysmod?

[UltimateByte]

That's it. ;)

[UltimateByte]

This is one of the very basics of Linux, that's cool you learned it, but you should already know that if you plan making servers. As i said, really consider experimenting and learning a bit more before starting something serious. You don't need months, you just need to try a lot of stuff quite a few times.

I guess we can close the issue. Please, use the Steam Group if you got more questions, I and others will be glad to help as long as you're kind, clear, and provide enough information for us to help you.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/linuxgsm/discussions/0/
And always remember that google is your best friend !

Have a great Linux time ;)

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