Any risks to just letting good ole crontab handle it with a filecopy rather than resorting to a plugin?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cc2iscooL Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 4:35 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 map rotations There's a cron job plugin for sm that will do this. Works great. On 7/2/09, Matthew Gottlieb <[email protected]> wrote: > BM has it so you can set configs that run during set times. > You can use that to change the mapcycle. I think the command is: > mapcycle mycycle.txt > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Karl Weckstrom<[email protected]> wrote: >> Is it possible to vary a server's map rotation by time-of-day? I've tried >> a few sourcemod plugins for this purpose, but they're all buggy and not >> ready for prime-time... Besides what I want to do is so simple i'm not >> sure it even warrants a plugin... >> >> For instance, I would like more customs run between 7pm-1am when our >> servers are most full, but avoid them at all other times. I like customs, >> but they tend to wipe a server from 32 to 10 players easily when they pop >> up during off-hours. During prime time, there's often a queue of people >> waiting to get on, so you could pop on ctf_amishrakefight and it would >> still fill up... >> >> Is it possible to simply copy a mapcycle.txt with a cron job at those >> times? Is anyone doing that now? Will it crash anything if you copy a >> mapcycle.txt when a server is already running? >> >> While I plan on testing it anyway if I don't hear back, I want to know if >> there's any gotchas before wasting my time :) >> >> Thanks in advance >> -Karl >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > -- -- Cc2iscooL Head Admin/Owner http://www.cc2iscool.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
