Linux Proper restart-script for server

[Dr_Cox1911]

I´m currently trying to enhance the performance of my server and therefore need some help.

 

With build28 we can directly manage the server with console-commands, so it should be possible to do a grace restart.

 

Some time ago I used a script which will simply kill the process and restart the sh-script, but I deactivated it because of potential damage to the map/save. I have decent linux skills but I´m kinda stuck here.

 

What I would like to achieve with the restart-script:

• 5min before restart send a message to all players
• send the "quit"-command to the server
• wait a couple of minutes
• restart the server

I´m stuck at the communication from my script to the actual game-server. Hope there are some Linux-cracks around here (looking at you Kirrus  )

[Connall]

I assume the script you talk about is mine perhaps and you're completely right. I don't know if direct server interaction through the console has been introduced yet, or if it's still on the horizon (I'm a bit out of date with some MP features right now) but if it's not, then I think this would be quite a difficult thing, short of some sort of script that has a dummy player admin on the server with which the server communicates with to execute the commands needed. (Think that's what minecraft, some arma servers do for example)

 

However if there is RCON support, if the script was set up as a CRON job or something, then at the start of the script you broadcast a message, then run something like sleep in the script for 5 minutes, then execute the rest of the script then I suppose that would work as well.

 

Probably not an answer you're looking for, but I thought I would shed some light on it all the same.

[Viceroy]

I heard through the grapevine that in Build 28 admin commands can be entered into the server console. Haven't verified it though.

[Deadend]

I heard through the grapevine that in Build 28 admin commands can be entered into the server console. Haven't verified it though.

 

Yes, they can be.

[Connall]

 

I heard through the grapevine that in Build 28 admin commands can be entered into the server console. Haven't verified it though.

 

Yes, they can be.

 

 

In which case it would be as simple as having the bash script run a command through screen (if that's how the server's set up.)

 

Edit: If interested, I might mock something up.

[Dr_Cox1911]

Would be awesom if you (@Connall) could build something. I wanted to test some stuff today, but I got my new hardware and had to "play" with it instead

[lan-online]

start server

screen -S prz_zombi ./servers/projectzomboid/projectzomboid-dedi-server.sh

 

cron

* */3 * * * /root/zomboid_restart.sh

 

 

zomboid_restart.sh

 

#!/bin/bash

 

screen -rd prz_zombi

screen -S prz_zombi -X stuff 'servermsg restart after 1 min\r'

sleep 45s

screen -S prz_zombi -X stuff 'save\r'

screen -S prz_zombi -X stuff 'Please disconnect for 30 sec\r'

sleep 5s

 

DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S`

DIR=/root/backups/zomboid

mkdir backups

mkdir $DIR

cd $DIR 

 

# create backup

tar -czf configs_$DATE.tar.gz -P /root/Zomboid /root/servers/projectzomboid/media/lua/shared/Sandbox

 

# delete old backup

find $DIR -name "*.gz" -mtime 2 -exec rm -f {} \;

 

screen -S prz_zombi -X stuff 'servermsg restart after 10 sec\r'

sleep 5s

screen -S prz_zombi -X stuff 'servermsg 5 sec\r'

sleep 1s

screen -S prz_zombi -X stuff 'servermsg 4 sec\r'

sleep 1s

screen -S prz_zombi -X stuff 'servermsg 3 sec\r'

sleep 1s 

screen -S prz_zombi -X stuff 'servermsg 2 sec\r'

sleep 1s

screen -S prz_zombi -X stuff 'servermsg 1 sec\r'

sleep 1s

screen -S prz_zombi -X stuff 'servermsg RESTART\r'

sleep 1s

screen -X -S prz_zombi quit

screen -wipe

sleep 5s

 

# restart

/usr/bin/screen -dmS prz_zombi /root/servers/projectzomboid/projectzomboid-dedi-server.sh

 

 

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[ModdedTibby]

ARGHH ive been searching for something like this for ages but im running a windows dedicated server not linux....