Re: [hlds_linux] l4d2: how to shutdown via cron?
In my experience, Steam updates on Linux are not stable enough to let it auto-update. Steam skips a package if it doesn't manage to download said package in so many tries. I've had it happen far too often on TF2 where it will update one package but skip another, leaving the server in an inconsistent (crashing) state. This may not be as large a problem for L4D2 because it only has 3 packages, 1 of which is rarely updated... but TF2 only has 6 packages, 3 of which are rarely updated and it often skips the Team Fortress 2 Content package but updates Materials and Dedicated Server. On 7/5/2010 12:14 AM, Jesse Molina wrote: Hi all I'm going to slightly threadjack here. I'm a very experienced unix sysadmin, but I'm a noob to the hlds servers. On this subject, how do others handle automatic upgrading when there is a new server update is out? Is it even wise to attempt auto updating? I know there is the -autoupdate arg to the startup command, but I'm under the impression that it's broke, and has always has been broke. I might be wrong there though, feel free to set me straight. So, how do others handle automatic updates to the server app? And yes, I realize that doing said auto updates may break mods, but hey, whatever. Thanks Eric Riemers wrote: All, Since these mutators are coming every now and then, i need to update all my l4d2 instances. These are forks so the nicest thing to do is a shutdown, then it updates it and done. However, I only know that I should telnet to the fork port and type in shutdown Is there a easy way I can setup something in cron to issue a shutdown each day? Eric ___ 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
Re: [hlds_linux] l4d2: how to shutdown via cron?
I'll have to switch to named screens.. since I am the admin for the Linux part, I just have everything in 1 big screen :) (and tf2 updates just fine) -Original Message- From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Gene H Sent: maandag 5 juli 2010 1:02 To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] l4d2: how to shutdown via cron? You're using named instances of screen, right? if so, you can use that to inject commands into each instance. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Eric Riemers riem...@binkey.nl wrote: All, Since these mutators are coming every now and then, i need to update all my l4d2 instances. These are forks so the nicest thing to do is a shutdown, then it updates it and done. However, I only know that I should telnet to the fork port and type in shutdown Is there a easy way I can setup something in cron to issue a shutdown each day? Eric ___ 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 ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
Re: [hlds_linux] l4d2: how to shutdown via cron?
I don't know if this helps any, but this is what the command to shutdown my servers looks like in my scripts: shutdown_command=screen -S $game -p 0 -X eval 'stuff exit\015' su -c $shutdown_command server_user The game variable would be whatever the name is for your screen session. You can replace exit with shutdown if that is what you are looking for. This script does run as root, but if it ran as the server_user you wouldn't have to use the su command. On 05/07/2010 2:53 AM, Allan Button wrote: Do you have that script still? I could make it check for announcements. It would actually be very simple to do so. Sent from my mobile. On Jul 5, 2010, at 1:28 AM, Gene Hgeneharde...@gmail.com wrote: I had it set up so I can issue simple commands in shell so that it will broadcast a message to the players (if any), shutdown, run update, and when finished, it starts back up. That way, it would be easy to ssh in from my phone, issue the command and viola! G. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Shane Arnold clontar...@iinet.net.auwrote: I think he means a way to automatically restart srcds and update when one is announced. I have never done it myself, but I imagine there is a way to hook these announcements, either with a sourcemod plugin or by monitoring the output of the console/screen session. Infact I vaguely remember a little while back the same subject being discussed. Try doing a search on the mailing list website (http://list.valvesoftware.com/). Regards ||On 5/07/2010 12:49 PM, Gene H wrote: thought that was the whole purpose of being subscribed to this list...to get notices when there is an update. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Jesse Molinaje...@opendreams.net wrote: Hi all I'm going to slightly threadjack here. I'm a very experienced unix sysadmin, but I'm a noob to the hlds servers. On this subject, how do others handle automatic upgrading when there is a new server update is out? Is it even wise to attempt auto updating? I know there is the -autoupdate arg to the startup command, but I'm under the impression that it's broke, and has always has been broke. I might be wrong there though, feel free to set me straight. So, how do others handle automatic updates to the server app? And yes, I realize that doing said auto updates may break mods, but hey, whatever. Thanks Eric Riemers wrote: All, Since these mutators are coming every now and then, i need to update all my l4d2 instances. These are forks so the nicest thing to do is a shutdown, then it updates it and done. However, I only know that I should telnet to the fork port and type in shutdown Is there a easy way I can setup something in cron to issue a shutdown each day? Eric ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux -- # Jesse Molina # Mail = je...@opendreams.net # Page = page-je...@opendreams.net # Cell = 1.602.323.7608 # Web = http://www.opendreams.net/jesse/ ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [hlds_linux] l4d2: how to shutdown via cron?
Guys, you are currently trying to reinvent the wheel. Thanks to the Nephyrin, there is a nice package called nemrun which does the checking for update. The most useful tool from this package is srcupdatecheck. You can adopt it to use in your own scripts or just use the whole package. If the gameservers and the system is owned by you, there is another interesting way of dealing with updates which does not require to shutdown gameserver for the update period and consumes less space on the drive if there is more than one server. The scheme would be as follow: 1. Firs of all you need a directory with base server files (like /game/l4d2_base) 2. The real server resides in the different directory and is hard-linked to the base files (command to hard link cp -f -r -p -l /game/l4d2_base/* /game/real_l4d2_server) 3. Create a crontab script which calls srcupdatecheck and depending on the output calls steam update tool binary and updates base server files 4. Note that when you update base files, they are unlinked, but they are not deleted. The real gameserver is left with the old files and the base server files get the updated ones. 5. When the steam binary completes the update process, the crontab scripts calls: screen -S l4d2_socket_name -X stuff quit (note: the closing quote is on the next line, because the quit command has to end with a enter/return/whatever you call it) 6. Gameservers should be started with a custom script like this one: while [ true ] ; do # update gameserver files with base files cp -f -r -p -l /game/l4d2_base/* /game/real_l4d2_server # run the server ./srcds_run -norestart ...(rest of your params, without -autoupdate) done Thats the way i'm dealing with updates. Works like charm. You can also use rsync to copy files, because hard-links are sometimes tricky to understand :) On 2010.07.05. 9:38, Ross Bemrose wrote: In my experience, Steam updates on Linux are not stable enough to let it auto-update. Steam skips a package if it doesn't manage to download said package in so many tries. I've had it happen far too often on TF2 where it will update one package but skip another, leaving the server in an inconsistent (crashing) state. This may not be as large a problem for L4D2 because it only has 3 packages, 1 of which is rarely updated... but TF2 only has 6 packages, 3 of which are rarely updated and it often skips the Team Fortress 2 Content package but updates Materials and Dedicated Server. On 7/5/2010 12:14 AM, Jesse Molina wrote: Hi all I'm going to slightly threadjack here. I'm a very experienced unix sysadmin, but I'm a noob to the hlds servers. On this subject, how do others handle automatic upgrading when there is a new server update is out? Is it even wise to attempt auto updating? I know there is the -autoupdate arg to the startup command, but I'm under the impression that it's broke, and has always has been broke. I might be wrong there though, feel free to set me straight. So, how do others handle automatic updates to the server app? And yes, I realize that doing said auto updates may break mods, but hey, whatever. Thanks Eric Riemers wrote: All, Since these mutators are coming every now and then, i need to update all my l4d2 instances. These are forks so the nicest thing to do is a shutdown, then it updates it and done. However, I only know that I should telnet to the fork port and type in shutdown Is there a easy way I can setup something in cron to issue a shutdown each day? Eric ___ 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 ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
Re: [hlds_linux] l4d2: how to shutdown via cron?
Thanks for the information. I had never really looked into a way to do it automatically and just had a Cron on Fridays to get the weekly mutations (once those came out). I will have to check this out as a way to save myself time...it's only 1 server with no forks that friends and I use, but whenever I get the $$ for more RAM I'll be adding public servers and this will be great! Logan Rogers-Follis - logan.rogers-fol...@tntnetworx.net Try New Technology Networx - www.tntnetworx.net Owner / IT Consultant On 7/5/2010 7:34 AM, Kaspars wrote: Guys, you are currently trying to reinvent the wheel. Thanks to the Nephyrin, there is a nice package called nemrun which does the checking for update. The most useful tool from this package is srcupdatecheck. You can adopt it to use in your own scripts or just use the whole package. If the gameservers and the system is owned by you, there is another interesting way of dealing with updates which does not require to shutdown gameserver for the update period and consumes less space on the drive if there is more than one server. The scheme would be as follow: 1. Firs of all you need a directory with base server files (like /game/l4d2_base) 2. The real server resides in the different directory and is hard-linked to the base files (command to hard link cp -f -r -p -l /game/l4d2_base/* /game/real_l4d2_server) 3. Create a crontab script which calls srcupdatecheck and depending on the output calls steam update tool binary and updates base server files 4. Note that when you update base files, they are unlinked, but they are not deleted. The real gameserver is left with the old files and the base server files get the updated ones. 5. When the steam binary completes the update process, the crontab scripts calls: screen -S l4d2_socket_name -X stuff quit (note: the closing quote is on the next line, because the quit command has to end with a enter/return/whatever you call it) 6. Gameservers should be started with a custom script like this one: while [ true ] ; do # update gameserver files with base files cp -f -r -p -l /game/l4d2_base/* /game/real_l4d2_server # run the server ./srcds_run -norestart ...(rest of your params, without -autoupdate) done Thats the way i'm dealing with updates. Works like charm. You can also use rsync to copy files, because hard-links are sometimes tricky to understand :) On 2010.07.05. 9:38, Ross Bemrose wrote: In my experience, Steam updates on Linux are not stable enough to let it auto-update. Steam skips a package if it doesn't manage to download said package in so many tries. I've had it happen far too often on TF2 where it will update one package but skip another, leaving the server in an inconsistent (crashing) state. This may not be as large a problem for L4D2 because it only has 3 packages, 1 of which is rarely updated... but TF2 only has 6 packages, 3 of which are rarely updated and it often skips the Team Fortress 2 Content package but updates Materials and Dedicated Server. On 7/5/2010 12:14 AM, Jesse Molina wrote: Hi all I'm going to slightly threadjack here. I'm a very experienced unix sysadmin, but I'm a noob to the hlds servers. On this subject, how do others handle automatic upgrading when there is a new server update is out? Is it even wise to attempt auto updating? I know there is the -autoupdate arg to the startup command, but I'm under the impression that it's broke, and has always has been broke. I might be wrong there though, feel free to set me straight. So, how do others handle automatic updates to the server app? And yes, I realize that doing said auto updates may break mods, but hey, whatever. Thanks Eric Riemers wrote: All, Since these mutators are coming every now and then, i need to update all my l4d2 instances. These are forks so the nicest thing to do is a shutdown, then it updates it and done. However, I only know that I should telnet to the fork port and type in shutdown Is there a easy way I can setup something in cron to issue a shutdown each day? Eric ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [hlds_linux] l4d2: how to shutdown via cron?
You're using named instances of screen, right? if so, you can use that to inject commands into each instance. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Eric Riemers riem...@binkey.nl wrote: All, Since these mutators are coming every now and then, i need to update all my l4d2 instances. These are forks so the nicest thing to do is a shutdown, then it updates it and done. However, I only know that I should telnet to the fork port and type in shutdown Is there a easy way I can setup something in cron to issue a shutdown each day? Eric ___ 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
Re: [hlds_linux] l4d2: how to shutdown via cron?
There's a plugin called server crontab on sourcemod forums that can perform this function. On Jul 4, 2010 5:56 PM, Eric Riemers riem...@binkey.nl wrote: All, Since these mutators are coming every now and then, i need to update all my l4d2 instances. These are forks so the nicest thing to do is a shutdown, then it updates it and done. However, I only know that I should telnet to the fork port and type in shutdown Is there a easy way I can setup something in cron to issue a shutdown each day? Eric ___ 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
Re: [hlds_linux] l4d2: how to shutdown via cron?
-You can get cron to run a script that you have in the srcds directory. I use screen and my script (stop_css) looks like this: /usr/bin/screen -r css -X quit -On cron, I run this script at 5 AM everyday: 0 5 * * * /etc/rc.d/css stop -The css file looks like this: #! /bin/sh # # /etc/rc.d/css # # run/stop CSS via screen export SRCDS=/gamedisk/games/halflife/srcds echo SRCDS CS:S case $1 in start) echo start su [username] -c 'cd /gamedisk/games/halflife/srcds ; ./start_css' /tmp/hlstartCSS.log ;; stop) echo stop su [username] -c 'cd /gamedisk/games/halflife/srcds ; ./stop_css' ;; esac -You must be root to enter the cron command. Notice that the script switches to a different user. This is recommended for running a game server (don't run as root). These start and stop scripts in rc.d are also used to start and stop the game servers when the system reboots or shuts down. There are links in rc3.d and rc5.d - S19css and K02css - for this purpose. Hope that helps. ...Chuck cgi...@compuserve.com -Original Message- From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Eric Riemers Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 5:52 PM To: 'Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list' Subject: [hlds_linux] l4d2: how to shutdown via cron? All, Since these mutators are coming every now and then, i need to update all my l4d2 instances. These are forks so the nicest thing to do is a shutdown, then it updates it and done. However, I only know that I should telnet to the fork port and type in shutdown Is there a easy way I can setup something in cron to issue a shutdown each day? Eric ___ 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
Re: [hlds_linux] l4d2: how to shutdown via cron?
Hi all I'm going to slightly threadjack here. I'm a very experienced unix sysadmin, but I'm a noob to the hlds servers. On this subject, how do others handle automatic upgrading when there is a new server update is out? Is it even wise to attempt auto updating? I know there is the -autoupdate arg to the startup command, but I'm under the impression that it's broke, and has always has been broke. I might be wrong there though, feel free to set me straight. So, how do others handle automatic updates to the server app? And yes, I realize that doing said auto updates may break mods, but hey, whatever. Thanks Eric Riemers wrote: All, Since these mutators are coming every now and then, i need to update all my l4d2 instances. These are forks so the nicest thing to do is a shutdown, then it updates it and done. However, I only know that I should telnet to the fork port and type in shutdown Is there a easy way I can setup something in cron to issue a shutdown each day? Eric ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux -- # Jesse Molina # Mail = je...@opendreams.net # Page = page-je...@opendreams.net # Cell = 1.602.323.7608 # Web = http://www.opendreams.net/jesse/ ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
Re: [hlds_linux] l4d2: how to shutdown via cron?
thought that was the whole purpose of being subscribed to this list...to get notices when there is an update. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Jesse Molina je...@opendreams.net wrote: Hi all I'm going to slightly threadjack here. I'm a very experienced unix sysadmin, but I'm a noob to the hlds servers. On this subject, how do others handle automatic upgrading when there is a new server update is out? Is it even wise to attempt auto updating? I know there is the -autoupdate arg to the startup command, but I'm under the impression that it's broke, and has always has been broke. I might be wrong there though, feel free to set me straight. So, how do others handle automatic updates to the server app? And yes, I realize that doing said auto updates may break mods, but hey, whatever. Thanks Eric Riemers wrote: All, Since these mutators are coming every now and then, i need to update all my l4d2 instances. These are forks so the nicest thing to do is a shutdown, then it updates it and done. However, I only know that I should telnet to the fork port and type in shutdown Is there a easy way I can setup something in cron to issue a shutdown each day? Eric ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux -- # Jesse Molina # Mail = je...@opendreams.net # Page = page-je...@opendreams.net # Cell = 1.602.323.7608 # Web = http://www.opendreams.net/jesse/ ___ 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
Re: [hlds_linux] l4d2: how to shutdown via cron?
I think he means a way to automatically restart srcds and update when one is announced. I have never done it myself, but I imagine there is a way to hook these announcements, either with a sourcemod plugin or by monitoring the output of the console/screen session. Infact I vaguely remember a little while back the same subject being discussed. Try doing a search on the mailing list website (http://list.valvesoftware.com/). Regards ||On 5/07/2010 12:49 PM, Gene H wrote: thought that was the whole purpose of being subscribed to this list...to get notices when there is an update. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Jesse Molinaje...@opendreams.net wrote: Hi all I'm going to slightly threadjack here. I'm a very experienced unix sysadmin, but I'm a noob to the hlds servers. On this subject, how do others handle automatic upgrading when there is a new server update is out? Is it even wise to attempt auto updating? I know there is the -autoupdate arg to the startup command, but I'm under the impression that it's broke, and has always has been broke. I might be wrong there though, feel free to set me straight. So, how do others handle automatic updates to the server app? And yes, I realize that doing said auto updates may break mods, but hey, whatever. Thanks Eric Riemers wrote: All, Since these mutators are coming every now and then, i need to update all my l4d2 instances. These are forks so the nicest thing to do is a shutdown, then it updates it and done. However, I only know that I should telnet to the fork port and type in shutdown Is there a easy way I can setup something in cron to issue a shutdown each day? Eric ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux -- # Jesse Molina # Mail = je...@opendreams.net # Page = page-je...@opendreams.net # Cell = 1.602.323.7608 # Web = http://www.opendreams.net/jesse/ ___ 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 ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
Re: [hlds_linux] l4d2: how to shutdown via cron?
I had it set up so I can issue simple commands in shell so that it will broadcast a message to the players (if any), shutdown, run update, and when finished, it starts back up. That way, it would be easy to ssh in from my phone, issue the command and viola! G. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Shane Arnold clontar...@iinet.net.auwrote: I think he means a way to automatically restart srcds and update when one is announced. I have never done it myself, but I imagine there is a way to hook these announcements, either with a sourcemod plugin or by monitoring the output of the console/screen session. Infact I vaguely remember a little while back the same subject being discussed. Try doing a search on the mailing list website (http://list.valvesoftware.com/). Regards ||On 5/07/2010 12:49 PM, Gene H wrote: thought that was the whole purpose of being subscribed to this list...to get notices when there is an update. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Jesse Molinaje...@opendreams.net wrote: Hi all I'm going to slightly threadjack here. I'm a very experienced unix sysadmin, but I'm a noob to the hlds servers. On this subject, how do others handle automatic upgrading when there is a new server update is out? Is it even wise to attempt auto updating? I know there is the -autoupdate arg to the startup command, but I'm under the impression that it's broke, and has always has been broke. I might be wrong there though, feel free to set me straight. So, how do others handle automatic updates to the server app? And yes, I realize that doing said auto updates may break mods, but hey, whatever. Thanks Eric Riemers wrote: All, Since these mutators are coming every now and then, i need to update all my l4d2 instances. These are forks so the nicest thing to do is a shutdown, then it updates it and done. However, I only know that I should telnet to the fork port and type in shutdown Is there a easy way I can setup something in cron to issue a shutdown each day? Eric ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux -- # Jesse Molina # Mail = je...@opendreams.net # Page = page-je...@opendreams.net # Cell = 1.602.323.7608 # Web = http://www.opendreams.net/jesse/ ___ 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 ___ 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
Re: [hlds_linux] l4d2: how to shutdown via cron?
Do you have that script still? I could make it check for announcements. It would actually be very simple to do so. Sent from my mobile. On Jul 5, 2010, at 1:28 AM, Gene H geneharde...@gmail.com wrote: I had it set up so I can issue simple commands in shell so that it will broadcast a message to the players (if any), shutdown, run update, and when finished, it starts back up. That way, it would be easy to ssh in from my phone, issue the command and viola! G. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Shane Arnold clontar...@iinet.net.auwrote: I think he means a way to automatically restart srcds and update when one is announced. I have never done it myself, but I imagine there is a way to hook these announcements, either with a sourcemod plugin or by monitoring the output of the console/screen session. Infact I vaguely remember a little while back the same subject being discussed. Try doing a search on the mailing list website (http://list.valvesoftware.com/). Regards ||On 5/07/2010 12:49 PM, Gene H wrote: thought that was the whole purpose of being subscribed to this list...to get notices when there is an update. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Jesse Molinaje...@opendreams.net wrote: Hi all I'm going to slightly threadjack here. I'm a very experienced unix sysadmin, but I'm a noob to the hlds servers. On this subject, how do others handle automatic upgrading when there is a new server update is out? Is it even wise to attempt auto updating? I know there is the -autoupdate arg to the startup command, but I'm under the impression that it's broke, and has always has been broke. I might be wrong there though, feel free to set me straight. So, how do others handle automatic updates to the server app? And yes, I realize that doing said auto updates may break mods, but hey, whatever. Thanks Eric Riemers wrote: All, Since these mutators are coming every now and then, i need to update all my l4d2 instances. These are forks so the nicest thing to do is a shutdown, then it updates it and done. However, I only know that I should telnet to the fork port and type in shutdown Is there a easy way I can setup something in cron to issue a shutdown each day? Eric ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux -- # Jesse Molina # Mail = je...@opendreams.net # Page = page-je...@opendreams.net # Cell = 1.602.323.7608 # Web = http://www.opendreams.net/jesse/ ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
