Thanks guys for the psychostats I do it like that because someone told me to, but I think you are right, it would be better just to put it right into crontab. For the screen thing I really don't understand it, I know you are right thought its a pain in the ass to not have the console there but I use hlsw. Maybe you could give me exact directions on what to do and wehre to do it ? my halflife is in /halflife/hlds_l/ Also now that we are here on the subject how would I get the machine to instead of booting up in linux do it in failsafe ? Like on the screen it lets me choose from linux failsafe and floppy and linux is default, and also I want to boot up into text mode and networking instead of gui. thanks for all the help, oh yeah and I reboot because my machine sucks I am not good at all at configuring it, sometimes the network will crash, then hlds will just crash and not come up and then some other error, rebooting gets rid of all my problems.
From: Leif Sawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [hlds_linux] help with crontab, got it all i think Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:14:37 -0800
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -- > > Hey guys I finally setup all my crontab stuff, and now I am > stuck. I can exec the hlds.sh in my root/bin directory and > halflife starts up fine, but the psychostats is not working. > And after the reboot at 3am the machine never runs the hlds.sh > so baseically the scripts are working fine but crontab wont > execute them here is my mian crontab entry :
couple of questions --
why are you rebooting the machine? Just to kill the hlds process? There are better ways, and you won't lose connectivity during the process..
Personally, i run hlds under screen so that I can always access its console -- simply kill that screen session, and hlds will die right along with it.
If you don't run under screen, hlds will not have a console to write to, and will never start up correctly (IIRC) so you probably want to do something like this:
exec /usr/bin/screen -c ~games/.screenrc -S HLcstrike ~games/half-life/HLcstrike
where HLcstrike is a shell script containing the commands that you use to start it up.
My screenrc looks like this:
<-------------->8 cut here 8<-------------------> multiuser on acladd admin1,admin2,games,root startup_message off scrollback 2000 bindkey \003 detach bindkey \033 detach detach <-------------->8 cut here 8<------------------->
I like multi-user, so that any of my admins can attach to the server and see what's going on. You don't have to use it.
the two bindkeys set up control-c and escape to detach from screen, and the final detach makes sure that any new screens auto-detach from the parent.
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