Bullgorge is a watchdog and auto-updater for the dedicated server of Natural Selection 2.
- Python 3.x - Bullgorge was written in Python 3.2.2. It should be forward-compatible for a while.
- tkinter - Bullgorge comes with a GUI for easy usage. Unfortunately, at the moment, there is no way to use Bullgorge without having the tkinter module for Python installed.
- Wine (optional) - The NS2 dedicated server only runs on Windows at the moment. Bullgorge compensates for this by automatically running server.exe with Wine if it detects you're not on Windows.
Download bullgorge.py and put it somewhere on your server.
Bullgorge can run in both GUI and command-line mode.
Open bullgorge.py. You should see this window:
The first two paths are very important. Bullgorge requires you to run the dedicated server available from HLDSUpdateTool. The first path is the directory where HLDSUpdateTool is located.
The second path is the location of NS2's server.exe file. This is also where server log files will end up.
You can specify server info manually, or you can tell the server.exe to load the values from a standard server.xml file. You can switch between those choices by clicking the button that says Values in the image.
When you press Start Server a console-like window will open up, showing you Bullgorge status information. If you close this window, the NS2 server will also terminate.
Invoke bullgorge.py by running python bullgorge.py, where python is the Python 3.x executable.
To get a list of available command-line options, run python bullgorge.py -h.
The main options Bullgorge is interested in are --hlds and --server.
- --hlds is the absolute path of hldsupdatetool.
- --server is the absolute path of NS2's server.exe. It is also where server log files will end up.
The rest of the options are passed to the dedicated server as information to the server. Note that specifying a --file argument will override any other choices.