L4d still not updating

[luvz2drv]

tried in the console (ssh) to run it maunaly and still no go

anyone have good luck with this as of yet?

not able to join the server as it give a protocol error


[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; unable to update local steamclient. Continuing with current version anyway.

shows in the logs.. need some help on this one...

On join of the server i get


Invalid protocol, expecting 1015, got 38

[darren]

I've updated several l4d installs today via ssh, what sort of errors did you get causing it to be a no go? I'll probably change L4D support in a future release to move it inside it's own directory to allow for automatic updating via cPGS like all the other steam based games.

[bctrainers]

Hey darren,

By chance could you post up the commands that you are using to allow the left4dead server to run correctly? I seem to be getting this error on a new server install.

[darren]

Something like this should work for now:

# cd /home/user/.gameservers/
# ln -s l4d_0 l4d
# ./l4d_0/steam -command update -game l4d_full -dir .

Substitute "user" for the user account in question and l4d_0 with the l4d_# install as well.
In the next release I'm going to move the l4d directory one level back so it will be /home/user/.gameservers/l4d_0/l4d/ so the autoupdate code that works for all other steam based games will work for it as well. Hopefully it won't cause to many issues but I think doing it sooner than later or trying to work around it will be the best for everyone