Thanks! I'm testing it, but my netcat (0.7.1) on arch linux doesn't
support -q and without it doesn't show anything. I'll try to look into
it, when I'm home. I was thinking about making some simple
scripts/tools too.
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:17 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The "status" output from the master netconport console of bunch of forked
> servers gives player numbers, but this includes bots controlling boss
> infected and survivors (which is why the number is rarely between 1 and 3).
> So if you want to get some kind of realistic aggregate player numbers, or if
> indeed you're not using fork but are using netconport consoles, you need
> something else:
>
> for i in `seq 9000 9012`; \
> do echo -e "PASS swordfish\nstatus" \
> | nc -q 1 localhost $i 2>/dev/null \
> | egrep -m 1 "^players : [0-9] humans, [0-9] bots \([0-9] max\) \((not
> )?hibernating\)" \
> | sed -r "s/^players : ([0-9]) humans, [0-9] bots \([0-9] max\) \((not
> )?hibernating\).*$/\1/"; done \
> | awk 'BEGIN {total=0} {total +=$1} END {print total}'
>
> http://pastebin.127001.org/315
>
> This boils down to:
> - Loop through netconport ports (change to suit)
> - For each port, we want to issue the PASS command with appropriate password
> (no that's not our real password, this time :P ), and then the status
> command (alter password to suit; if not using passwords, remove everything
> except status)
> - Use netcat to push that command to the server (change localhost to your
> server's IP if you're not running this locally), close the connection after
> 1 second, and silently redirect errors to the bit bucket (like if there's
> nothing listening on that port)
> - Find the line containing the number of players
> - Alter that line to _only_ display the number of players and nothing else
> - After looping through all servers, total up the numbers
>
> I know it says a 1 second delay per server, but it actually goes a lot
> faster than that.
>
> Not sure if this is useful to anyone, but there it is. Comments,
> suggestions, and improvements welcome :)
>
> Philip Cass
>
>
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