Starting up Ventrilo Server?

[Nolam]

I have it downloaded (linux version). What folder should I put it in?? Does it matter?

I am new to bash so i dont know how to start the Ventrilo Server up.

I navigated to the folder the server is in and did ./ventrilo_srv and ./ventrilo_srv -d and they both come up "No such file or directory". What do i do???????

[WinstonChurchill]

I have it downloaded (linux version). What folder should I put it in?? Does it matter?

I am new to bash so i dont know how to start the Ventrilo Server up.

I navigated to the folder the server is in and did ./ventrilo_srv and ./ventrilo_srv -d and they both come up "No such file or directory". What do i do???????

You know, I had this exact same issue with Ventrilo about 4 months ago - the file existed, I could use the 'vi' command and see it's contents, 'hexdump' would show it, and the permissions were set correctly (I tried a thousand configurations, even SUID), but whenever I tried to execute the file it would always give me that "file not found" error, even if I renamed it and moved it around. I tried extracting the archive on different machines with different programs and just moving the binary onto the server. I tried running it as several different users, including root. I tried executing the binary from scripts - absolutely nothing worked. It makes no sense at all... the file was right there, but BASH always threw up that error message.... I really thought I was going crazy. Ventrilo worked fine on my old server (not certain that it was the same version though); the only difference I can think of is that my new server is x86_64 and my old one was 32-bit; is yours? Run 'uname -m' and see what the output is. Maybe there is some strange incompatibility? I really have no idea.

I gave up because I didn't ever use it much anyway - but if you really need Ventrilo-like functionality, Mumble is open-source and supposedly works better anyway. It has clients ported to all the major operating systems. I'd just go with that. Just run:

sudo apt-get install mumble-server

... and then read the man pages and set up your config files as you like.

[Nolam]

You know what...mine is too...and the ventrilo server is only 32-bit...could that be it for some weird reason??? Because other people got it to work but i dont know if they have 32 or 64 bit.

I reinstalled my server (there was nothing on it) as 32 bit, and it worked!!! Thank you so much!!!

Now, the screen comes up and its running, but is there a way to somehow minimize this and put it in the background and go do something else or something??

[Eric Buist]

You know what...mine is too...and the ventrilo server is only 32-bit...could that be it for some weird reason??? Because other people got it to work but i dont know if they have 32 or 64 bit.

I reinstalled my server (there was nothing on it) as 32 bit, and it worked!!! Thank you so much!!!

Now, the screen comes up and its running, but is there a way to somehow minimize this and put it in the background and go do something else or something??

Very strange indeed, and very shocking... until you run sudo apt-get install ia32-libs. This solved it, at least for me, on Ubuntu 12.10. Now the server is running, but I will experiment with Mumble since there is no Ventrilo client for Linux anyway.

[overdrank]

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