Thanks, but to build a script that you could actually admin a server
from (things like banning and kicking players), you would need to return
a list of players. I think I can get that with qstat. But at this
point I'm not interested in going down that road.
Drek
SilentSpam2000 wrote:
> Crazy Canucks wrote:
>
>> Just wondering if anyone knows it is possible to query a server from a
>> bash script, and if so, if you could point me in the right direction as
>> to how to do it. I suppose if it isn't possible, I can always use a
>> perl script to query the server and output the data to a file.
>>
>> Cheers, Drek
>>
>
> Yes, there might be a solution. This is a little script function (in
> bash) to ping a server and return 0 if the server is online and 1 if the
> server is gone. It uses the netcat command (nc) to send the request. It
> waits just one second for the connection and one for the return value.
>
> ping_server() {
> SERVER=$1
> PORT=${2:-27015}
> RESULT=`echo -ne "\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFF\x69\x00" | \
> nc -nu -q 1 -w 1 $SERVER $PORT`
> RESULT=${RESULT:4:1}
> if [ "$RESULT" == "j" ]; then
> return 0
> else
> return 1
> fi
> }
>
> Use it this way:
>
> ping_server 127.0.0.1 27015
> # or whatever ip / port your server has
> if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
> echo "server online"
> else
> echo "server offline"
> fi
>
> More functions are described here:
> http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Server_Queries
>
> Hope this could help.
>
> Greets, Silent_Water
>
>
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