-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nevermore wrote: > Hi, i am now using screen to start my server as daemon. > But i know that professional hosters uses diferent ways. > > i have reasons to think that screen is freezing my servers. > > so... How do you start your server?
If you're not interested in having terminal based console access, a good way to go on this is a simple shell script wrapper that starts the server in the background and logs all the output to your syslogger. Copy the following to a file, modify to suit your startup options and chmod 755 <filename>. Then, you can just run this script to start the server. The output will probably show up in /var/log/messages by default. If not, configure your syslogger. #!/bin/sh # Set vars to be used game='left4dead' ip='*.*.*.*' game_opts="-game $game -ip $ip +map l4d_dem_hospital01_apartment" base_dir='/opt/halflife/l4d_demo' log='/usr/bin/logger' log_opts="-p daemon.info -i -t $game" cmd="./srcds_run $game_opts 2>&1 | $log $log_opts" # Change to the base dir cd $base_dir # Run it, but start it as a background task $cmd & -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkd4NEACgkQQ0lr+ZVKSBjrsACfetc3SNfFHpj5hyjl6OGOAshe 10AAn3Z2O+kxaFVcYbOgyM52GMQGY3hM =/mEe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux