Promotional Server Problems

Alright so I'm going to start advertising my Clan to anybody who wants to join and I've made the script for the promotional server. Problem is every time I start the server up, instead of getting the name "-hostname "Clan .Loner Promotional Server" and the Adminpassword I want, I get this -hostname "Ninjas only" -adminpassword "ION." Right after I press enter this happens. For some reason it automatically changes it when i launch it.
I tried to see if the same thing happened when I started my Clan server. Well that server started up just fine and dandy. I'm only getting this issue with my promotional server.

Here's the entire segment i'm getting:
Last login: Sun May 16 15:48:41 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
users-Computer:~ user$ /Users/user/Desktop/Tim\'s\ Stuff/Flashes:Games/Games/bitFighter/Bitfighter.app/Contents/MacOS/Bitfighter -dedicated server -hostname "Clan .Loner Promotional Server" -adminpassword "********" -levelchangepassword "*************" -hostdescr "ShadowX.loner Wants You to join Clan .Loner!" -leveldir "Promotional Levels"
/Users/user/Desktop/Tim\'s\ Stuff/Flashes:Games/Games/bitFighter/Bitfighter.app/Contents/MacOS/Bitfighter -dedicated server -hostname "Clan .Loner Promotional Server" -adminpassword "********" -levelchangepassword "*************" -hostdescr "ShadowX.loner Wants You to join Clan .Loner"-dedicated -hostname "Ninjas only" -adminpassword "ION" -leveldir "Promotional Levels"
Loaded level Join Clan .Loner! of type Capture the Flag [levels/Promotional Levels/ClanRecruit.level]
Server connecting to master...
Client puzzle solved in 244 ms.
Client puzzle solved in 269 ms.
Server established connection with Master Server

Help is wanted.

[karamazovapy]

instead of getting the name "-hostname "Clan .Loner Promotional Server" and the Adminpassword I want, I get this -hostname "Ninjas only" -adminpassword "ION."

I gonna go out on a limb and say the hostname is "Ninjas only" and the adminpassword is "ION" because that's what you're setting those parameters to at the end of the command line.

  Code:

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-hostdescr "ShadowX.loner Wants You to join Clan .Loner"-dedicated -hostname "Ninjas only" -adminpassword "ION" -leveldir "Promotional Levels"

Other things I'd change:
Bitfighter -dedicated (get rid of the word server)
-adminpassword ******** (choose a password without spaces, lose the "")
-levelchangepassword ************* (same)
-hostname "Clan .Loner Server" (shorten it up)
-hostdescr "Join Clan .Loner!" (same)
-leveldir promos (choose a one word name for your leveldir, lose the "")
(also, order)

So my command line would look like this:

  Code:

bitfighter -dedicated -hostname "Clan .Loner Server" -hostdescr "Join Clan .Loner!" -adminpassword adminpw -levelchangepassword levpw  -leveldir promos

I'm 99% sure my command line would work exactly the way I intended it to.

That's the thing though, I'm not adding the ninjas only and ION parts into the script, the server automatically switches it to that instead of what I want it to say. I'll give your suggestions a try too, see if it helps.

[karamazovapy]

Then I would guess that as a mac user, you've got some command line code squirreled away inside the executable from an eternity ago. If my command line fails, re-install bitfighter to a fresh directory, copy over your levels and .ini, and try again.

I've already done that.

Three times.

Oooookay. Take me a while to make time to work on my BitFighter issues, but the server now works. Thank you _K!

[watusimoto]

So... what was the solution?

Actually I think it was just a changing of the format of the script. The reason being because the

  Code:

-dedicated -hostname "Ninjas only" -adminpassword "ION" -leveldir "Promotional Levels"

was from one of my previous attempts at creating a dedicated server script. My Dad was suggesting that the script I wanted was being overrided because the preferences from one of my previous .ini files was still actively functioning and causing the problem. The only problem I had with that theory is because when I hosted the official clan server, it wasn't being overwritten. So really I have no idea why it started working, I just made the edits _K offered to the promo script and it started working. But then again I'm not very fluent in code/program, so I might not know what I'm talking about.

[watusimoto]

Command line options should always override settings in the INI file.

[karamazovapy]

Command line options should always override settings in the INI file.

Yeah, but a lot of mac users execute command line stuff differently, by modifying a part of the executable. Don't know if that figures in or not, but it seems like one of the few differences in the way mac/pc users enter their parameters.

Another possible source of fuckuppery was the inclusion of the erroneous "server" in the original command line. I don't know why that would cause the unusual results above, either, but it seems a much more likely candidate than any of my other fixes.

[watusimoto]

by modifying a part of the executable.

This would be analogous to modifying a batch file or creating a short cut with the cmd line params embedded, right? In any case, the statement about cmd line params taking precedence over INI settings holds.

[karamazovapy]

I really don't know if the software recognizes it as being the same as a batch file or short cut...I did it once on a university computer and it seemed more invasive than that, somehow. Maybe someone with a mac can try to reproduce it and see if there's a bug.