Hi,
  Ok I have had problems with Xpilots starting sometimes. The problem
I found was that the server was taking a long time to start and until
then you could not join the game.
I found that this was a problem with the xpilots server waiting for
the network. My problem was that it was trying to contact nameservers listed
in resolv.conf that were not currently accessable.

Cheers,
				Mark

PS. Does the server get as far as reporting the map compressions ratio ?
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