Tutorials

Full syntax and behaviour of the AMX Mod X ban commands — amx_ban, amx_banip, amx_addban and amx_unban — including offline bans, persistence, and the flag you need.

Why a ban vanishes on restart: the write step that saves it to disk, the exec that reloads it, and the Linux file-permission problem that silently drops both.

Why the engine does not read your ban files at startup on its own, which files hold SteamID versus IP bans, and the exec lines server.cfg needs so bans survive a boot.

The three places a CS 1.6 ban lives, the removeid/removeip and writeid/writeip commands that actually delete it, the AMXX amx_unban limits, and how SQL-based bans differ.

Engine bans vs AMX Mod X amx_ban vs AMXBans MySQL: how each stores a ban, where the ban list lives, and which one to run for a single server versus a network.

The difference between SteamID and IP bans on CS 1.6, the engine and AMX Mod X commands behind each, and which one actually holds against non-Steam abusers.