where do amx bans save

Pr0jeCt · **Author**

I got a problem, whenever i ban someone..
amx_addban "steamid" 0 - usually.

Well no matter what type of ban.. i wanna know where they save at.. i see day after day people who i have banned..are back in server.. In banned.cfg on the server i usually see steamid's in there.. but it always fluxuates..soem days like 4 in there.. some days like 10..

I just banned over 6 people.. and i dont see their steamid in the banned.cfg.

Where do allt he bans from amx save at?

smallwimpyboy · 10-04-2005 , 22:46

i think its in banned.cfg or banlist.cfg Anyways thats how it is for my clan

Pr0jeCt · 10-04-2005 , 23:29

banned.cfg is erased.. always ..cant find the other file..

so does anyone on the amxx forum... know where amxx saves bans.

jtp10181 · 10-04-2005 , 23:36

amxx doesn't save bans anywhere, unless you mean where does it LOG them? which is in the addons/amxmodx/logs folder.

to clarify, amxx doesn't save the bans anywhere, it sends the ban command to hlds and then the writeid command which makes hlds save the bans to the banned.cfg. To erase all your bans you cannot simply erase your banned.cfg because when the server starts it executes that file, thus loading all the bans into memory. So, to quickly erase all bans, shut the server down first, then delete the banned.cfg.

Pr0jeCt · 10-05-2005 , 00:46

ok i understand now.. however i dont want to loose my bans.. but i do.. the banned.cfg is always empty... it erases itsself.. ill ban .. then ill look at it.. ban might be there sometimes.. other times i look its gone.

Example their was just 1 ban in my cfg file.. i restarted server..and its gone

it was a permanant ban..

slmclarengt · 10-05-2005 , 01:23

add these lines to your server.cfg:

Code:

filterban 1
exec banned.cfg
writeid

Pr0jeCt · 10-05-2005 , 01:37

alright..i added.. but i dont see how that will keep amx/hlds from reseting the banned.cfg but ill try.

jtp10181 · 10-05-2005 , 07:55

actually.... you dont need the writeid,

but you should put this in the server.cfg

Code:

//Banning Setup (Re-Bans on Server Restart)
filterban 1
exec banned.cfg
exec listip.cfg

the reason your banned.cfg may have been getting erased was this. When you ban someone using the amxx commands, it bans them, first using the server command "bannid" which puts the ban into hlds memory, then it sends "writeid" which writes the CURRENT bans in memory to the banned.cfg. You are supposed to have those lines in the server.cfg to execute the banned.cfg when the server is restarted, and if you do not then the bans will not get realoaded into memory. So if you ban someone again it will be only thier steamid in the banned.cfg (it will erase all the other entries form the last time the server was loaded). With these commands in place the old bans will get loaded into memory and then any new bans will be added to the end.

There is no server command to erase all your bans, there really is no way the server is erasing your banned.cfg. Only way it could be erased is if some plugins is doing it. Let us know if putting these commands in the server.cfg helps you out.

Anthraxnz · 10-05-2005 , 10:31

also check you FTP file permissions, if your banned.cfg isnt being written even with writeid you permissions to the file might be 000 or read only.

try the unix code 775 for a semi secure method otherwise 777 is full access