One more interesting thing is that even when you kill a fork with "quit" or "_restart" it still shows up in the netcon master console:
$ telnet 0 9000 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. PASS xxxxx status #status child 0 pid : 0 map : l4d_farm01_hilltop numplayers : 0 child 1 pid : 1 map : l4d_farm01_hilltop numplayers : 0 child 2 pid : 2 map : l4d_farm01_hilltop numplayers : 0 child 3 pid : 3 map : l4d_farm01_hilltop numplayers : 0 child 4 pid : 4 map : l4d_farm01_hilltop numplayers : 0 child 5 pid : 5 map : l4d_vs_hospital01_apartment numplayers : 0 #end Child 0 (fork #1) is the one I took down with _restart. David A. Parker wrote: > Same things happens with _restart: > > _restart > L 08/20/2009 - 10:31:42: Preventing spawning > L 08/20/2009 - 10:31:42: server_message: "quit" > L 08/20/2009 - 10:31:42: Log file closed > L 08/20/2009 - 10:31:42: server_message: "restart" > > And then the fork never comes back. This is the same behavior as > "quit". When this happens the shutdown of the fork gets logged, though, > and that doesn't happen when they die on their own. > > w4rezz wrote: >> quit to force auto-restart? what happened with "_restart" command ? >> >> 2009/8/20 David A. Parker <[email protected]>: >>> I remember the same symptoms happening when "quit" was used as well, and >>> I think that is something Valve needs to fix (forks should auto-restart >>> like any other instance of srcds, but they don't). However, server >>> forks are apparently dying on their own since the July 31 update. And, >>> as Ronny pointed out, it seems this only happens to non-idle forks. >>> >>> [email protected] wrote: >>>> I haven't checked recently, as we're reorganising our servers at the >>>> moment, >>>> but I certainly used to be able to trigger this simply by issuing an rcon >>>> "quit" command to a child server. Confused the hell out of me the first >>>> time I say it, as this certainly _used_ to work >>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: [email protected] >>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >>>>> Of David A. Parker >>>>> Sent: 19 August 2009 15:54 >>>>> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >>>>> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] L4D forks keep crashing >>>>> >>>>> This is what I noticed as well. Most of the time, when the >>>>> forks crash >>>>> on my server, they show up as having players on them in the netcon >>>>> master console. The most recent time this happened was the >>>>> only time so >>>>> far that a crashed fork has shown 0 players in the master console. >>>>> >>>>> I also have two forks which are Steam group servers and have >>>>> not had any >>>>> players on them recently, and they have not crashed. It >>>>> certainly looks >>>>> like this only happens to forks which have had players on them. >>>>> >>>>> - Dave >>>>> >>>>> Ronny Schedel wrote: >>>>>> As far as I have seen, it occurs after the game is over and >>>>> the server goes >>>>>> back to hibernating state. Idle servers are never affected >>>>> by this. It does >>>>>> not occur all the time, I suspect it occurs when there is a >>>>> problem with the >>>>>> connection to the master server to set the free state for >>>>> the server or >>>>>> something similar. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Jay Deiman wrote: >>>>>>>> Ronny Schedel wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The crashes occur on a vanilla server. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Yeah, I will second that (again). It seems to be fairly >>>>> random as well. >>>>>>>> Jay >>>>>>> Happens to me as well, but only on server that are in use. >>>>>>> I also have some forks that are private and have not been >>>>> used lately. >>>>>>> So it's definitly not something that just happens at random but is >>>>>>> triggered during useage. Although I am unable to determine >>>>> the cause. >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the >>>>> list archives, >>>>>>> please visit: >>>>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the >>>>> list archives, please visit: >>>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> Dave Parker >>>>> Utica College >>>>> Integrated Information Technology Services >>>>> (315) 792-3229 >>>>> Registered Linux User #408177 >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>>>> archives, please visit: >>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>> please visit: >>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>>> >>> -- >>> >>> Dave Parker >>> Utica College >>> Integrated Information Technology Services >>> (315) 792-3229 >>> Registered Linux User #408177 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > -- Dave Parker Utica College Integrated Information Technology Services (315) 792-3229 Registered Linux User #408177 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
