Files from new patcher in different location than old?

[uRit1u2CBBA=]

I noticed last week, that my Mystify spell wasn't showing up in the spell list. I never bothered checking it out until today, but it seems that the script I use to download the data files (strings_us.txt, etc.) no longer pull down "current" versions of the files.

I checked the number of lines in the file on the SEQ box vs. the one on my EQ box. SEQ was missing about 1000 lines.

Anyone know of a way to see what the new patcher does when downloading files? Do they pull them from a differnet directory from the old? Or should it be acting the same and I'm just going insane?

Thanks

[BlueAdept]

I noticed last week, that my Mystify spell wasn't showing up in the spell list. I never bothered checking it out until today, but it seems that the script I use to download the data files (strings_us.txt, etc.) no longer pull down "current" versions of the files.

I checked the number of lines in the file on the SEQ box vs. the one on my EQ box. SEQ was missing about 1000 lines.

Anyone know of a way to see what the new patcher does when downloading files? Do they pull them from a differnet directory from the old? Or should it be acting the same and I'm just going insane?

Thanks

Check to make sure it is pulling down spells_us.txt and not spells_en.txt. The file name was changed some time ago and would account why the spells aren't there.

I had updated staticspells.h with a perl script that was in the old tree. It was updated in the 11.1. That updated the file to the newest spells. I did not know that SEQ did it automaticly since I do not pull the spells_en.txt over.

As for strings_en.txt I do not see that in the Everquest directory.

[uRit1u2CBBA=]

The files that I'm pulling down from the patcher using my "do_patch" script is:

spells_us.txt
eqstr_us.txt // both used by SEQ
dbstr_us.txt // not used by SEQ, but I use it against another script to generate races.h

I'm not grabbing spells_en at all, only the _us one.

It looks like that the version that I am pulling down has some new data, just not all of the new data (like my Mystify spell, which is the one that I first noticed was missing to tip me off of something going wrong).

I copied my EQ box version of the file to the SEQ box, and then I started to see the Mystify spell in it, so it's working when the file's current.

Did I answer or verify all your questions?

[BlueAdept]

I dont know then. As far as I can tell, nothing was changed.

[uRit1u2CBBA=]

Is anyone else able to pull down the file from the various patchers to at least duplicate what I've found or to show me that I'm messing something else up?

Thanks.

[bonkersbobcat]

The script that I have always used pulls files from http://patch.everquest.com:7000/patch/everquest/main. It appears the string and spell files there were last updated 08/14/2007.

[uRit1u2CBBA=]

Does anyone have a proxy server or something to log http requests to try to find out where the new patcher is pulling files from? Sounds like it's confirmed it's not the same as the old one.

[flopz]

I could see about running a tcpdump while the patcher's running.

[BlueAdept]

From what I can see it is pulling from here:

http://abeeqp-1.station.sony.com:7000/patch/everquest/en/patch0/main/

but when I try to get one of the files, I get a 404

[uRit1u2CBBA=]

Don't forget that the patcher downloads all files with a .gz extension then gets extracted.

so the file you want to "wget" is spells_us.txt.gz

I just did a sample test, and it worked.

I'll update my "do_patch" script with this new info and try it out for a few days. But I think we got the problem fixed.

[ieatacid]

Mine is getting them from

http://patch.everquest.com:7000/patch/everquest/en/patch0/main/

[uRit1u2CBBA=]

They may have some sort of router in the middle that splits the load of the server over several servers. They have adjacent IP addresses:

199.108.194.72 and 199.108.194.73

[uRit1u2CBBA=]

OK - I'm confused again.

The patcher downloaded a new file: dragitem59.tga

I updated my script that grabs all dragitem files with the new URL we discovered, and it works, except for that new file.

So the patcher must have grabbed it from somewhere else. Anyone able to determine that?

Thanks.

[ieatacid]

I deleted mine so it would grab another and it came from

patch.everquest.com:7000/patch/everquest/en/patch1/main/uifiles/default/dragitem59.tga.gz

[ieatacid]

Mine is getting them from

http://patch.everquest.com:7000/patch/everquest/en/patch0/main/

The string and spell files came from the same URL except this time it's "patch1".