>
> Regarding the update failures, what was $?
>
> That is, did the updater exit 0, or something else?
>
> My auto-update script checks to make sure that I get exit 0 from steam,
> or else it runs again up to four times before it gives up. It is very
> common that it runs twice.
>
> I don't use nemrun myself, but I seem to remember his script doing a
> similar exit code check and re-running the update as necessary.
>
> If steam didn't exit 0, it didn't update. If you don't know, then you
> should!
>
> Just do "echo $?" immediately and only immediately after the steam
> command finishes to find out the exit code. If it's 0, that's good. if
> it's something else, re-run the update.
nemrun DOES re-check. The scripts are out there for anybody to look at,
including Valve and anyone else who wants to suggest it is doing something
wrong as an explanation for the problem.
I would imagine a lot of people on this list actually DO know about bash
using $? to store the return code from the last command. I do and have
for a long time. Here's a snip from one of my simpler "older days" update
scripts:
--------
# update game function definition
game_update() {
./steam -command update -game "tf" -dir . -verify_all -retry
}
cd ~/tf2
# run update function once in case we get a zero return value on 1st try:
game_update
#echo "Return Code: $?"
## loop - we should keep doing this until we get a zero return
#
until [ $? -eq 0 ] ; do
game_update
done
--------
The problem isn't that our scripts are doing the wrong thing.
>
> --
>
> This isn't the best bash, but whatever. This is a snip, may be
> incomplete.
>
> while [ /bin/true ] ; do
> ./steam -command update -game $GAME -dir ./$GAMEDIR -retry
> UPDATEEXIT=$?
> UPDATECOUNTER=$(( $UPDATECOUNTER + 1)) # counter increment
> echo ""
> echo "./steam update exit code was $UPDATEEXIT"
> if [ "$UPDATEEXIT" = 0 ] ; then
> echo ""
> echo "Update completed. Please start server if desired."
> break
> else
> echo ""
> echo "Update did not succeed."
> if [ "$UPDATECOUNTER" -lt "5" ] ; then
> echo "Try $UPDATECOUNTER failed, will try again..."
> sleep 1
> continue
> fi
> if [ "$UPDATECOUNTER" -eq "5" ] ; then
> echo "Tried $UPDATECOUNTER times already. Will not try again."
> break
> fi
> fi
> done
>
>
>
>
> John Schoenick wrote:
>> nemrun just calls hldsupdatetool with normal options.
>>
>> Your princess is in another castle.
>>
>> On 12/15/2011 08:32 PM, Fletcher Dunn wrote:
>>> PatchVersion=1.1.8.9
>>> ProductName=tf
>>> appID=440
>>>
>>> The file was definitely updated in the depots. I don't know why some
>>> people are not able to get it. You know there *is* something else that
>>> has changed other than our update: many of you are using a new
>>> up-to-date check script. Nothing on our end has changed with regard to
>>> how we distribute this file. None of the Valve dedicated servers had a
>>> problem receiving it.
>>>
>>> It looks like there is a problem where old servers are still allowed
>>> to be listed, if they were logged in before the update. That may be
>>> adding to the confusion.
>>>
>>> - Fletch
>
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>
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