Manually Ban Someone

[Gogster (DayZ) 626]

You may have noticed, from a few posts today, that I'm parsing my log files for cheats. I've now compiled a list of people using cheats.

Is it as simple as adding them to the bans.txt file? Or is there a special process?

[Barronism 88]

If you have proof for each ban, I ask that you share them with the community so other admins can view your proof and decide if they want to ban them also.

[Gogster (DayZ) 626]

I, personally, have not problem with that. I'm just cautious about posting names, IP's & GUID's in a public forum.

I'm a veteran of the PunksBusted system and we used to have a rule that player information for bans should only be available to admins.

Do you have any information about adding them to the bans.txt file? I don't want to go through this process for them to be overwritten by BattlEye on the next update.

[DarkRaven123 602]

Add the players GUID to the ban.txt.

The problem with that though is some hacks have spoofing capabilities.

Edit - I wouldn't think that a Battleye update would overwrite the text file.

That would be incredibly redundant.

Edited August 6, 2012 by DarkRaven123

[Gooder 0]

new to this hosting stuff trying to understand how you guys go through to even tell when someone is hacking your server. I have looked around and not really sure which log or text r w.e. I should be checking. im using host altitude so not sure if i have access to all those logs as other hosts may have.

[Torndeco (DayZ) 46]

If the hacker is lazy u can catch them via battleye

Look inside \cfgdayz\BattlEye\

Check your scripts.txt isnt empty

If its is look @ http://dayzmod.com/f...ration/��theres a copy of scripts.txt there

Then with some luck u will start to notice entries in \cfgdayz\BattlEye\scripts.log

Its important u DON'T BAN everyone mentioned there. It just flags some entries and most of the time they are harmless

Try out http://dayzmod.com/f...r-for-admins/�� to search the log file for u + it will highlight the line number

notepad++ is a nice file / source editor

Next u want to search + post a thread if u arent sure if it is a hack or normal game script, last thing u want todo is ban someone by mistake.

Edited August 6, 2012 by Torndeco

[Gooder 0]

thanks ill be sure to read over this stuff.