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I keep getting an error message while opered,

Unable to write tunefile...

I was wondering what i should do to fix this. I also wondered what the tune file was?

I run the Win32 copy with SSL support

log into your shell, change to your Unreal run directory and type: touch ircd.tune

You may need to /rehash

He's running on win32 not linux


Make sure "ircd.tune" isnt read only

my bad .. but it should still be created if it's missing.

If such an error message appears, there can be three problems I can think of:

1. You have accidentally deleted the Unreal3.2 installation directory.
2. There's no permission for creating and writing files in the Unreal3.2 directory.
3. ircd.tune exists, but there's no write permission on it.

And yes, the ircd.tune file is created automatically if it doesn't exist. It's updated in every 5 minutes by the ircd. You don't need to "touch" it.

uhm ... this is directly from the Unreal3.2 Release Changes file:

"- Fixed a ircd.tune bug (the file may not write if it didn't exist)"

That tells me that you *MAY* need to 'touch' it, besides .. I deleted mine intentionaly and duplicated this issue .. I 'touch'ed ircd.tune and it fixed the problem.

I get this same error: Unable to write tunefile.. it tends to happen every five or so minutes, I know for a fact that 'ircd.tune' isn't read only.

How might one touch a file on a win32 based platform and is it even possible?

Everything seemed to run smoothly when I was running 3.2 but when I decided to update too version 3.2.2 this error begun.

Regards,
SilentAssassin

So far, it always turned out to be a permissions problem, diskspace problem, or someone that simply (re)moved his whole unreal directory :p.

Does ircd.tune exists? If so, try this: If it did not exist then this: Followed by the cacls command mentioned 1st.

See if it helps.

Anyone knows a better equivilant of touch at win32? I mean at the command line, not cheating with notepad or anything ;). I thought in the past (pre-windows) rem >file worked, but it seems it no longer does anything?? odd

Syzop wrote:Anyone knows a better equivilant of touch at win32? I mean at the command line, not cheating with notepad or anything . I thought in the past (pre-windows) rem >file worked, but it seems it no longer does anything?? odd

echo is about it. I think Windows isn't to keen on empty files, but...

You might be able to do it with type con > ircd.tune (copy con ircd.tune works too) and then hit CTRL+Z (may need to hit Enter) when the console appears to be hung (why? well con is a special device for "console" - essentially the same as reading from /dev/tty* in *nix). Of course you could just have a general blank file somewhere that you can just copy into place.

Yes it did, tyvm for the assistance .