Information wanted on setting up Judge

> I'm looking into what it takes to setup my own judge to host email
> diplomacy games.
>
> Does anyone have any information on the required software and hardware
> requirements?
>
> Rob

The hardware requirements are trivial. The judge software and other
information is available at http://njudge.org/. It runs on *nux. Your
options there are to set up an old PC as a Linux host on your home
network, change your workstation over to Linux, get a Power PC with
OSX or see if you can compile and run the judge under cygwin. The main
obstacle most users will have is that the judge is a server; Operating
one with a residential Internet connection is almost always in
violation of the Terms of Service of your ISP. For a private judge,
mail volume will probably not get high enough to be an issue, but a
public judge can kick out 500 emails during the 11 o'clock hour when
it's active.

The main thing is to think about the reason that you want to run a
judge and determine whether it's worth it. If you just want to GM a
lot of games, you can spread them out over a couple judges - USAK,
USAL, USAZ and UKYS, to name a few. If you want to run private games,
it's easy enough to do on exiting judges.

The best reason to start a new public judge is to serve a perceived
need. Serving different world regions (time zones and Internet
backbone connectivity) or serving different languages would be a
couple good examples. For a private judge, participating in judge
development or having total access control (to limit participation to
club members, for example) are the most common reasons.

If you're determined to go ahead, I'm willing to help off list. If you
still want to run a judge, but don't want to get involved with the
*nux administration then there are ways that can be managed too.

Chris Babcock
USAK JudgeKeeper
(back from the brink)
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On Nov 1, 5:39 pm, Chris B - JK at asciiking dot com
<swift2plun....DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> The main thing is to think about the reason that you want to run a
> judge and determine whether it's worth it. If you just want to GM a
> lot of games, you can spread them out over a couple judges - USAK,
> USAL, USAZ and UKYS, to name a few. If you want to run private games,
> it's easy enough to do on exiting judges.

My initial reason for wanting to set one ip is my natural
inquisitiveness I like to know how these things work, and it'll
also be a good workout for my unix admin skills. With that in mind, is
there any particular linux distribution you can recommend for this?
I'm assuming that anything that can compile the package will suffice,
but I wondered if there were particular distros that made the
maintenance easier.

>
> The best reason to start a new public judge is to serve a perceived
> need. Serving different world regions (time zones and Internet
> backbone connectivity) or serving different languages would be a
> couple good examples. For a private judge, participating in judge
> development or having total access control (to limit participation to
> club members, for example) are the most common reasons.

I like in the UK, so this will run in the UK timezone which some
players may find preferential. I'm not sure yet if I'll actually open
the judge up once configured. I'll make that decision once it's
running.

>
> If you're determined to go ahead, I'm willing to help off list. If you
> still want to run a judge, but don't want to get involved with the
> *nux administration then there are ways that can be managed too.


Thanks Chris, I might take you up on that should I come unstuck.

Rob
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In article <1194005897.585862.22950.DeleteThis@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
Robmonster <robmonster.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>My initial reason for wanting to set one ip is my natural
>inquisitiveness I like to know how these things work, and it'll
>also be a good workout for my unix admin skills. With that in mind, is
>there any particular linux distribution you can recommend for this?
>I'm assuming that anything that can compile the package will suffice,
>but I wondered if there were particular distros that made the
>maintenance easier.
>
I'd seriously recommend using some version of Linux that you're happy
with, pretty much all the Judge stuff itself is so old that it works
on anything with a C compiler and a copy of csh.

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