Auto Starting After Rcon Quit

strikeforce · May 2005

<div class="IPBDescription">Is it in the script or config files</div> I run 2 servers one I have setup the bash script and all of that the second one someone else has configured. When the server that I hadn't setup but take care of if I type rcon quit in console it'll shutdown the server then restart. With the first server if I type rcon quit it shuts down but doesn't restart.

Is it a config setting or a bash option to get it to reboot after its been shutdown?

Vadakill · May 2005

Depends on how the servers are started. The hlds_run shell script has a built in "restarter" while running the server binaries directly do not.

strikeforce · May 2005

I'll have to find out cause I tried it again today and when I type rcon quit it shutsdown but when I type it in the other server it reboots? Must be something in the hlds_run script where instead of shutdown it goes to reboot.

Sion · May 2005

@Vadakill

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The hlds_run shell script has a built in "restarter" while running the server binaries directly do not.
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I find this to work only if you have -autoupdate in the command line.

or is it because I run my processed as screens (screen -dmS ./hlds_run ....)

that it is circumventing this?

strikeforce · May 2005

Yeah I don't run autoupdate possibly it could be the reason why it starts. I run the same setup as you script wise. I'll have to double check with autoupdate and see whether that helps or is the cause of it.

strikeforce · May 2005

I know its a double post however I've solved it from some posts at steampowered.

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screen -A -m -d -S ns /home/ns/hlds_l_wans/steam/hlds_l/hlds_run -autoupdate -game ns +exec server.cfg +ip 123.123.123.123 +port 27015 +maxplayers 18 +map co_ulysses.bsp

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Assuming you have a bash script above thats pretty much mine. I put autoupdate in I'm not sure of the placement but I tried at the end it didn't work so I tested it in a few spots and it works if its placed there and the game loads up as well.

When the -autoupdate command is put in in the script it runs fine and also when you type rcon quit it'll reboot the server not shutdown the serverl.

E.G just finished with a tourney and instead of manually turning everything off just type rcon quit and its all done.

HTH someone

Jiriki · June 2005

Hlds_run keeps the server running. It will restart the server if it crashes but if it's quitted normally, it wont. To restart the server type "_restart" without quotes, then the script knows what you want.

You can also build your own script without any fancy features (like above).

<i>run_hlds</i>
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#!/bin/sh
# Run this with "nohup ./run_hlds&" without quotes
# Change CPU if you have different cpu.
# (i486 = general, i686 = pentium, amd64 = 64bit-AMD, amd = AMD)

OPTS=-game ns
CPU=i486
HL_PATH=$HOME/hlds_l

cd $HL_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=".:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

while true;
do
echo Starting hlds...
./hlds_$CPU $OPTS > /dev/null
sleep 5
done
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Auto Starting After Rcon Quit

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