Installation instructions:

1) Make sure that you have a recent version of perl5 installed.

The programs have been tested under perl 5.004_04, but older versions
may be ok.

2) Install needed modules from CPAN.

The INSTALL-MODULES.pl script is provided to automatically install all
necessary modules from CPAN.

3) Make up a configuration file.

The file "config" holds the names of the player machines, as well as
user name and password information for game server logins.  As of now,
all services which require a login are checked with the same account,
per participant.  The contents of this file should be known only to
referees, obviously.

4) Write and test additional probes.

If you feel like adding more probes, put a .pl file for each probe you
want to run in the probes/ directory.  This directory is scanned by
the game server upon startup.  Look at the included probe to see what
the arguments would be, and how points are granted.

5) Run the game server

'perl5 gameserver.pl <config-file>'


This is not a release.  The software is far from finished.  It is
propably hard to install, and does run on nothing but FreeBSD-2.2.
Then again, propably not.  Your mileage may vary.

If you feel like it, send mail to hans@berlin.ccc.de for suggestions.
Send mail to deathmatch-subscribe@lists.ccc.de if you want to
subscribe to our mailing list.  Send mail to
deathmatch-unsubscribe@lists.ccc.de to get off the list.


Hans Huebner