Question about scripts.log

tickle_me_jesus · June 10, 2012

Guys,

I hope someone can help me or point me in the right direction how to read the actual scripts.log file.

I admin a server through Vilayer host and within the control panel I can stream / download various log files. One of these is the scripts.log file.

As I came to understand this is the file where BE writes to, right?

Now, the file is really big (1.3 Gb) but the latest entries in the log file are from the last couple of days. I was looking through them and find all kinds of things are written but not all. My question would be; when does BE actually writes something to the scripts.log and do all the entries in there mean someone was being naughty / or trying to?

One of the latest entries reads

sleep 0.5;

player setDamage 1;

0.1 fadeSound 0;

_id = player spawn spawn

24.07.2012 22:51:58: XXXXer (XX.XXX.68.121:2374) 7ead31af23ded272af5e23188f0c16c6 - #27 awn player_alertZombies;

sleep 0.5;

or this one?

_id = player spawn spawn

24.07.2012 22:33:01: XXXure (XX.XX.205.120:2304) 874eb2468a33294d5a265d4d4a792e55 - #27 1];

if (_ent isKindOf "Animal") then {

_ent setDamage 1;

} else {

_ent setHit ["legs",1];

_ent setV

What am I reading? Did this person tried to hack? Is it just a false positive?

Any help would be much appreciated, before I start banning people that didn't deserve it :)

Edited July 24, 2012 by tickle_me_jesus

Zerg00s · July 23, 2012

hi!

As to the the first script - this is absolutely normal.

The second one looks suspicious. I've just banned the player who used it multiple times.

Also, try to backup and delete your log file. Don't let it grow that big. It will be recreated after awhile.

Edited July 28, 2012 by Zerg00s

Marklaar · July 9, 2012

Hellow! Can you help me whith my problem? I have hosted a server and learn how to control it, but still cant find any of information where i can learn how to read logs (try to understand what happenning on my server) it will be realy awsome if smb can help me with my problem!

paronity · July 24, 2012

Yea, the first one is normal.

The second one looks like it is taking every object that is not an animal and hitting their leg with 1 damage (which means destroy completely), which I am assuming would attempt to break their leg. Looks like there is more to that script....can you post what it is/was?

Zerg00s · July 23, 2012

Yea, the first one is normal.
The second one looks like it is taking every object that is not an animal and hitting their leg with 1 damage (which means destroy completely), which I am assuming would attempt to break their leg. Looks like there is more to that script....can you post what it is/was?

Thank you, Scavenger! I've banned two players who used this script several times after reading your explanation.

Update: We had to unban two people who used this script:

if (_ent isKindOf "Animal") then {

_ent setDamage 1;

} else {

_ent setHit ["legs",1];

_ent setV

In fact this is a harmless script. This is a trap that breaks legs. You can sometimes see multiple script entries. It only means that the trap worket multiple times due to the bug.

Edited August 3, 2012 by Zerg00s

Zerg00s · July 23, 2012

hi!
As to the the first script - this is absolutely normal.
UPDATE: The second one looks suspicious. This is a harmless script that works when the trap breaks someone's legs.
Also, try to backup and delete your log file. Don't let it grow that big. It will be recreated after awhile.

kyriel · May 15, 2012

Thank you, Scavenger! I've banned two players who used this script several times after reading your explanation.
Update: We had to unban two people who used this script:
if (_ent isKindOf "Animal") then {
_ent setDamage 1;
} else {
_ent setHit ["legs",1];
_ent setV
In fact this is a harmless script. This is a trap that breaks legs. You can sometimes see multiple script entries. It only means that the trap worket multiple times due to the bug.

Like this? Everybody's leg broken between 18:02pm and 18:03pm

31.07.2012 18:02:33: Eldhar (IP) GUID - #32 player setHit ['legs',1];