Waiting for Auth event

[ZariZaryab]

var options = {
  tcp: false,
udp: true,       // false for UDP, true for TCP (default true)
  challenge: false  // true to use the challenge protocol (default true)
};

var conn = new Rcon('13.127.42.200', 28961, 'rcon',options);

conn.on('auth', function() {
  // You must wait until this event is fired before sending any commands,
  // otherwise those commands will fail.
  console.log("Authenticated");
  console.log("Sending command: help")
  conn.send("help");
}).on('response', function(str) {
  console.log("Response: " + str);
}).on('error', function(err) {
  console.log("Error: " + err);
}).on('end', function() {
  console.log("Connection closed");
  process.exit();
});

conn.connect();
conn.send("map mp_powcamp")

This doesn't work for some reasons, what to do?

[pushrax]

See the comment in the example:

conn.on('auth', function() {
  // You must wait until this event is fired before sending any commands,
  // otherwise those commands will fail.

This is also explained at the end of the example file

node-rcon/examples/basic.js

Lines 22 to 27 in a683f11

	conn.connect();
	// connect() will return immediately.
	//
	// If you try to send a command here, it will fail since the connection isn't
	// authenticated yet. Wait for the 'auth' event.

Try this code:

var options = {
  tcp: false,
  challenge: false
};

var conn = new Rcon('13.127.42.200', 28961, 'rcon', options);

conn.on('auth', function() {
  // You must wait until this event is fired before sending any commands,
  // otherwise those commands will fail.
  console.log("Authenticated");
  conn.send("map mp_powcamp");
}).on('response', function(str) {
  console.log("Response: " + str);
}).on('error', function(err) {
  console.log("Error: " + err);
}).on('end', function() {
  console.log("Connection closed");
  process.exit();
});

conn.connect();

[ZariZaryab]

var options = {
  tcp: false,
  challenge: false
};

var conn = new Rcon('13.127.42.200', 28961, 'rcon', options);

conn.on('auth', function() {
  // You must wait until this event is fired before sending any commands,
  // otherwise those commands will fail.
  console.log("Authenticated");
  conn.send("map mp_powcamp");
}).on('response', function(str) {
  console.log("Response: " + str);
}).on('error', function(err) {
  console.log("Error: " + err);
}).on('end', function() {
  console.log("Connection closed");
  process.exit();
});

conn.connect();

I tried this code at the very first time and did so again but, it just shows console message "Authenticated" and nothing else appears in terminal.
Moreover, this command is supposed to change the map but, server doesn't change map or nothing else is working.

[pushrax]

Okay, got it.

Can you provide any more information? What game server are you using?

If possible, a packet capture would be helpful to identify any issue. For example, using wireshark or tcpdump.

[ZariZaryab]

I'm using Call of Duty 1 server for this, the server is hosted on linux, with mods.

[Thomas-is-dev]

var options = {
  tcp: false,
  challenge: false
};

var conn = new Rcon('13.127.42.200', 28961, 'rcon', options);

conn.on('auth', function() {
  // You must wait until this event is fired before sending any commands,
  // otherwise those commands will fail.
  console.log("Authenticated");
  conn.send("map mp_powcamp");
}).on('response', function(str) {
  console.log("Response: " + str);
}).on('error', function(err) {
  console.log("Error: " + err);
}).on('end', function() {
  console.log("Connection closed");
  process.exit();
});

conn.connect();

I tried this code at the very first time and did so again but, it just shows console message "Authenticated" and nothing else appears in terminal. Moreover, this command is supposed to change the map but, server doesn't change map or nothing else is working.

same problem , with wrong password , auth is true 😂 wtf ?