kNiL’s L4D Server

How to contribute?

You may have realized, that this site (and kNiL’s server) is a non-commercial project, wich isn’t advertised to the public. Yes, help is wanted! Volunteers are welcome, because my time and my skills are limited. Which help is needed? In general, any contribution is welcome but most appreciated help currently is How to provide your help? Well, first let me know about your plans. You might then get your own account for this site to edit/add content. To provide content…

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Technical Summary

In April 2021 I have started my own dedicated L4D-server.Thanks to cosmicD, that gave me support doing this! Hardware setup kNiLs server runs at my home at my Synology NAS (DS918+) in an docker environment (read below), so it does not run on it’s own dedicated hardware but shares resources with many other services: Software / OS environment Most of my services run in docker environment, so kNiL’s L4D-server does too. I had set it up my own docker image…

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Update procedure via ssh

You won’t be able to start a game on an L4D server, which is outdated! Here the update-procedure for super admins, that have access via ssh: Connect as user Steam !(otherwise you may get “Loading Steam API…threadtools.cpp (2420) : Assertion Failed: Permission denied.””

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