[ bzflag-Patches-719387 ] New server command /report

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Patches item #719387, was opened at 2003-04-11 02:50
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Category: BZFlag
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Lars Luthman (larsl)
Assigned to: Lars Luthman (larsl)
Summary: New server command /report

Initial Comment:
This patch adds a new server command, '/report', and
two new server options '-reportfile <filename>' and
'-reportpipe <progname>'. When the player Foo types
'/report I like this server!', this will be written to
the server's stdout:

Fri Apr 11 02:21:11 2003
Reported by Foo: I like this server!

If the '-reportfile <filename>' has been given, the
same text will also be appended to that file. And if
'-reportpipe <progname>' has been given, bzfs will open
a pipe to that program and write the same text to that
pipe. If you are running the server on a UNIX box and
you are sitting at the same computer, you could run
bzfs like this:

bzfs -reportpipe 'xmessage -file -'

to get a message on your desktop when a player uses the
/report command. The program could be anything - a
script that sends an email, tells an IRC bot to do
something, sends a Zephyr message, whatever. It could
be useful as a way of letting the server admin know
when he/she/it needs to do something, such as kicking a
cheater or fixing some other problem. It is also a way
of letting players tell the admin how they like the
server and the map (and if you use -reportfile the
admin won't have to read all the logs to see it).

This has only been tested on Linux with GCC 3.2.2, so
if any Windows or Mac persons are reading this, please
apply this patch and test it.

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>Comment By: Lars Luthman (larsl)
Date: 2003-04-18 18:18

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Appearently they are called _popen() and _pclose() instead. I suppose I'll 
add an ugly #ifdef when I'm back at my computer. I'll fix the close() thing 
too. 
 
Thank you for the comments. 

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Comment By: Michael Hoffman (michaelh20)
Date: 2003-04-16 22:39

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I'm not quite sure about how pipes work if at all under windows (have to 
contact someone else about that), but for sure there is no popen or 
pclose (unless there is some funky windows header you have to 
include to get them). Also the ofs.close(); generates an error because it 
is conlict with some other macros, hence you never see closes on 
ofsteams in bzflag because of this conflict -- apparently they close 
themselves when out of scope -- at least this is how people are dealing 
with it I guess.

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