Ventrilo Server

[mattsiegman]

I was thinking about actually using my VPS for something VPSish. Has anybody had any troubles hosting a Ventrilo server on the VPS systems? It should be pretty straightforward, but I figured I'd see if there's any weirdness out there about it.

[Gwaihir]

This guy seems to have sailed through ok: Program/command start on bootup.

[mattsiegman]

I saw that, but they never came back and mentioned if it wound up working or anything :-/

[update]
I went ahead and set it up. It was almost disturbingly easy how smoothly it went. It seems to be working great!
[/update]

[mattsiegman]

Update:
I've been having some weird connectivity problems. I can connect fine, but some of my friends can't. I don't think it's a firewall problem, so maybe it's a config issue on my end.

As mentioned in the other thread, I've created a service script to make running the server nice & easy. I found most of it on some random form, and it's probably a bit overkill, but oh well

Anyway, here's the (sorta) step-by-step guide.
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I created a ventrilo user, and unzipped the files into /home/ventrilo and made the ventrilo user the owner of them. I also customized some things in /home/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv.ini

I then created /etc/init.d/ventrilo and put this code in it:

#!/bin/bash
#
# vent This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
# the Ventrilo subsystem (vent).
#
# chkconfig: - 64 36
# description: Ventrilo Chat Interface.
# processname: ventd
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# CONFIG
prog="Ventrilo 3.0.2"
vent_path=/home/ventrilo
vent_user=ventrilo
vent_server=ventrilo_srv
vent_status=ventrilo_status
vent_log=$vent_path/ventrilo_srv.log
vent_pid=$vent_path/ventrilo_srv.pid

# Startup ventrilo servers.
start(){
chmod 0775 $vent_path
chmod 0775 $vent_log

su $vent_user -c "$vent_path/$vent_server -f$vent_path/$vent_server -d"
ret=0

if [ $ret -eq 0 ]; then
        STARTTIMEOUT=30
        while [ $STARTTIMEOUT -gt 0 ]; do
                RESPONSE=`ls -al ventrilo_srv.pid 2>&1` && break
                echo "$RESPONSE" | grep -q "root" && break
                break
                sleep 1
                let STARTTIMEOUT=${STARTTIMEOUT}-1
        done
        if [ $STARTTIMEOUT -eq 0 ]; then
                echo "Timeout error occurred trying to start $prog Daemon."
                action $"Starting $prog: " /bin/false
                else
                action $"Starting $prog: " /bin/true
        fi
else
        action $"Starting $prog: " /bin/false
fi

return $ret
}

stop(){
VENTPID=`cat "$vent_pid" 2>/dev/null `
if [ -n "$VENTPID" ]; then
        /bin/kill "$VENTPID" >/dev/null 2>&1
        ret=$?
        if [ $ret -eq 0 ]; then
                STOPTIMEOUT=60
                while [ $STOPTIMEOUT -gt 0 ]; do
                        /bin/kill -0 "$VENTPID" >/dev/null 2>&1 || break
                        sleep 1
                        let STOPTIMEOUT=${STOPTIMEOUT}-1
                done
                if [ $STOPTIMEOUT -eq 0 ]; then
                        echo "Timeout error occurred trying to stop $prog Daemon."
                        ret=1
                        action $"Stopping $prog: " /bin/false
                else
                        action $"Stopping $prog: " /bin/true
                fi
        else
                action $"Stopping $prog: " /bin/false
        fi
else
        ret=1
        action $"Stopping $prog: " /bin/false
fi
return $ret
}

restart(){
        stop
        start
}

status(){
        $vent_path/$vent_status -c2 -t127.0.0.1
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
status vent
;;
restart)
restart
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
exit 1
esac
exit $?

I then linked it into rc2.d with:

ln -s /etc/init.d/ventrilo /etc/rc2.d/S95vent

Then you can run the following commands:

service ventrilo start
service ventrilo stop
service ventrilo restart
service ventrilo status

Finally, I made rules in the VPS's firewall to allow incoming traffic on 3784/tcp 3784/udp 6001/udp
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That may or may not work for others, but it's most of the hard stuff, and I *think* mine is working ok.