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From: Jeff Solomon

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Subject: AutoAdmin, QSmack, release announcement

Date: 23 Jul 1997 11:19:07 +0100

Organization: Stanford University

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Clan 9 from Outer Space is pleased to announce the release of its

AutoAdmin program known as "QSmack". For details:

http://lemur.stanford.edu/clan9/qsmack

QSmack is a server administration tool for Quake (not QuakeWorld)

servers: a program permanently connected to a server as client with

admin privileges, so that it can do anything an admin could do (often

automatically). It exists primarily because the "ban" console command

in regular Quake is insufficient . That command does not allow

multiple IP addresses subnets to be banned. It also doesn't allow

banning based on names. QSmack can do all that and more.

Here is a summary of QSmack's most prominent features:

o Flexible and powerful player banning, based on IP address and/or

name.

o Persistence. If the server goes down, QSmack reconnects as soon

as the server comes up. And banning information is permanently

recorded until you remove it.

o In-game command. If you are also on the server as an admin, you

can direct QSmack to ban any current player, or indeed any IP

address or pattern.

QSmack has been in operation on our servers for several months and has

proven to be both stable and very useful. Check out either of these

servers with qstat:

kitty1.stanford.edu:26000

kitty1.stanford.edu:26001

and note the player with no name, no frags, and a connection time

usually over 50 hours. That's QSmack. Players who frequent our

ClanRing server will also have noticed a player named C9_AutoAdmin

that is always connected; that's also QSmack.

The webpage mentioned above contains all the information a server admin

needs to get started with QSmack.

Clan 9 from Outer Space http://lemur.stanford.edu/clan9

ahnuld jsolomon@oneiron.stanford.edu

lemurboy jbaxter@lemur.stanford.edu