For server admins that are perhaps a bit bewhildered by all this. It is important.
For instance: The seta rconpassword "password" is incredibly important never to type it into the console or if u r like me...typos will spam the password to the whole server.
my favorite is rconpassword "password" without that leadnig \ which of course means you have just spammned the password to the whole server. opseh.
I promised some of you that i would write some commands that admins unfortunately have to be familiar with ...so here goes with the popular ones
\rcon pb_sv_plist << lists the current players on the server and gets their IP address and player ID
\rcon pb_sv_ban X << where X is taken from above (Punkbuster command)
\rcon pb_sv_kick X << where X is taken from above (Punkbuster command)
\rcon status << lists the current players on the server and gets their IP address and player ID
\rcon disorient X << my personal favorite - it flips their screen and the mouse bananas.
\rcon orient X << resets it
\rcon map_restart << have a guess
\rcon g_allowvotes << and again
\rcon cancelvote << you are on a roll - go for it
\rcon ignore X << stops them from being heard
\rcon unignore X << stops them from being heard
\rcon map mp_beach << or mp_assault, mp_depot, etc...
\rcon cp I am a message << spams a message to the middle of the clients screen
The above are partial to the RTCW mod known as Shrub Mod (written by Shrub). There are a lotof commands that can be issued and i sugest you have a look at his page. His documentation is excellent.
http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/shrub/
The goldrush mod we have is written by Bani and his site can be found here >>
http://bani.anime.net/banimod/
Banis commands are slightly different but worth a looky.
Credit to both of these guys as they have extended the game and have made it very enjoyable indeed.
Here is a tip...wanna see what commands are there? lets try some Punkbuster commands...
In your console type
\pb_sv_ and then press tab
rtcw will list all of the possible commands that start with this string. This is helpful if like me, you are dopey.
All of the possible thngs you can type are there (check ur cfg files too) so you could do the same for \r_ OR \cg_ give it a go
Good Luck - Don't break the servers please.
stom.