I'm using a web interface for my servers I made in PHP and I experienced similar issues with freezing servers not being able to be shut down by any admin except me (via ssh). The solution I use is simple. Since my web interface names all screens it starts tf_$id (like tf_15) I can simply provide a kill switch which would use `ps aux | grep tf_15` to get the PID of the screen and then kill it, all in one bash script which simply takes the server id as parameter. So if you give your screens unique names it's only one PHP and bash script that finds and kills the server.
-- Mit freundlichen Grüssen, Sincerely Yours, Daniel Vogel On 26 May 2011 13:31, frostschutz <frostsch...@metamorpher.de> wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33:23AM +0200, Eric Riemers wrote: >> Only in some cases the instance "hangs" and needs a proper kill or >> something similar to restart. > > If there's any way to reliably detect these hangs, some kind of > watchdog cron job that restarts it automatically might be worth > looking into. > > Finding out the cause of those hangs & fixing those would be > even better but you can't have everything I guess... :) > >> I could create a webthingy that it places a file which can be checked with >> a crontab and if found restart a screen/process but it sounds like someone >> should have been there before me. > > For running / managing gameservers and other things in screen, I made this: > > https://github.com/frostschutz/Screen-Manager/blob/master/bin/sm > > However it does not offer any kind of remote management. > > If you already have a web service running on the machine, it'd probably be > the best / easiest to use option. > > I used to have a Python daemon that allowed the client to connect through > telnet and issue simple commands like ping server, show players, or restart. > > I'm using SSH instead now, with an authorized_keys entry that restricts > the user to a specific action only, so it does not actually give shell > access. For example the entry can look like this: > > command="manage-server.sh",no-agent-forwarding,no-port-forwarding,no-user-rc,no-X11-forwarding > ssh-rsa AAAAQQQQ== AdminName > > Of course this requires the user to install an SSH client and generate > an SSH key, although you can hide this complexity behind a Windows shortcut. > Still, a web service would probably be much more comfortable, I just didn't > want to install a web server and possibly PHP just for this... > > Regards > frostschutz > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
