The latest version of nemrun: http://nephyrin.net/tools/nemrun/
Supports starting an 'update daemon' that watches for updates and sends reboot commands to servers. My servers usually are updated within minutes of an update (and they beat the rush to the content servers, so the DL doesn't take ages). I know its not exactly what you're looking for, but its another option. You can modify the reboot command it sends to servers, so you could write a plugin that provides, say, a "sm_updateavailable" command that nemrun's daemon could send, allowing the plugin to then decide what to do. There's also a way a SM could hook the 'out of date' notification, but i dont know if anyone has done it in a publicly available extension. This could be used in conjunction with higher heartbeat frequency to let servers become aware of updates much more quickly, and decide what to do. - Neph On 12/13/2009 01:44 AM, Nathan D. wrote: > Currently, when auto-update is turned on and updates to a game are > released, we have to manually restart our server(s) so that auto-update > will update the server during start up. Because we have to manually > restart, there is X amount of time before our server(s) are updated and > are usually empty since most of the clients have already updated. > > A suggestion of mine would be to make auto-update 1.) aware when updates > are released and 2.) know when the server has players in it or not. > Therefore, when auto-update knows there is an update available and > realizes the server is empty, it could automatically issue the "exit" > command to restart the server so that auto-update will run. > > In the meantime while Valve considers my suggestion, does anyone know > some sort of practical way to have the server restart itself when an > update is available? For someone who runs many servers, it is a slight > hassle to restart each server manually so that auto-update can run. > > My apologies if something relative to this has already been discussed; I > just re-joined the mailing list after many years of being unsubscribed. > > -Nate > > _______________________________________________ > 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
