unreal3.2 not backwards compatable?

daisylei12 · Post by **daisylei12** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 1:46 pm

I'm running Unreal3.2-rc1 on an existing server, i installed unreal3.2.1 on my new server thinking to network them. Well after some trial and error did get them talking to each other, i had to change the cloak keys in 3.2.1 to match the other server and rehash, which threw conf file errors but continued to run and successfully linked. everything was fine until a power outage cause me to have to restart the new server.

I got

[error] unrealircd.conf:333: set::cloak-keys: (key 3) Keys should be mixed a-zA-Z0-9, like "a2JO6fh3Q6w4oN3s7"
[error] 3 errors encountered
[error] IRCd configuration failed to pass testing
Possible error encountered (IRCd seemily not started)

with 3 errors, one for each cloak key. I changed the cloak keys to meet the 3.2.1 requirements and ran ./unreal start
again and got the same error, tried physically rebooting the server, deleting the file and replacing it. everything i could think of, unreal simply will not rehash the new the file and start its process running.

I did plan to upgrade the new server but dont want to mess with a working system until i have a back up system in place and running.

any help to get my 3.2.1 to start again appreciated, thanks!

Post by **Syzop** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 2:08 pm

Well, as you can see from the error msg, the cloak keys should be all upper case (a-z), lower case (A-Z) and digits (0-9) combined... so just using your old cloak keys (eg: 24732234) is not allowed.
You could however, *temporarely* use the 'oldcloak' module instead of 'cloak', then it should work just fine.

daisylei12 · Post by **daisylei12** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 2:12 pm

saved conf file, deleted evertyhing, config and compile again and it works now...