motd broken

[Aaron113]

After garrys update the motd seems not to be working on my server.  Everything else works fine though.  It shows some TF2 map cycle.

[Megiddo]

Garry probably added the motdfile cvar again, just set it to the ulx motd.

[Aaron113]

Garry probably added the motdfile cvar again, just set it to the ulx motd.

I do that how exactly?

[Stickly Man!]

I believe it's motdfile "blah" in console.. Could be wrong though.

Also, Megiddo, Noticed an issue with MOTDs that may have been caused by the update (or the above issue)-- If you set ulx_showMotd to a URL, then change it back to ulx_showMotd 1, it will still only show the URL rather than the MOTDfile. Any way to fix that?

[Aaron113]

So do I have to set it in the servers config?  and do I just put ulx_motd.txt?

[Aaron113]

A couple of new questions...
What is the location of the motdfile relative to?
and
Do we use motdfile or motdfile_text?

[Megiddo]

Use motdfile, it's relative to the root directory.

[Aaron113]

Aell I tried motdfile addons/ulx/ulx_motd.txt and nothing happened.  Are we suppose to put it in cfg? (Server is a little full so kinda hard to try.)

[DiscoBiscuit]

Just do ulx_motd.txt not all that other stuff.

[Aaron113]

Still seems not to be working...

[Briam]

I can confirm that this isn't working.

It showed some standard counter-strike one at my server. Then i tried overriding the motd.txt in cstrike folder and it just showed white :S. Then i setup a webserver where I can host our motd and wrote ulx showMotd "url" which works

[RynO-SauruS]

The actual modified custom MOTD file goes straight in the root folder and should be named "ulx_motd.txt"
(I say this because there's a default 'template' thing in addons/ulx that should not be modified),
so to fix this, put this in your cfg/server.cfg file (otherwise it resets itself):

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motdfile "ulx_motd.txt"

This is assuming you haven't renamed or moved it.

[Aaron113]

I figured out my problem, I was thinking superadmins would be able to change it.  After I used rcon it works fine, just seems to be a little wide.


EDIT: Ok I'll put that in the cfg.

[Megiddo]

Added 'motdfile ulx_motd.txt' to our config to fix it in the mean time, since garry's probably going to end up removing that cvar again at some point.