In my experience, Steam updates on Linux are not stable enough to let it auto-update. Steam skips a package if it doesn't manage to download said package in so many tries. I've had it happen far too often on TF2 where it will update one package but skip another, leaving the server in an inconsistent (crashing) state.
This may not be as large a problem for L4D2 because it only has 3 packages, 1 of which is rarely updated... but TF2 only has 6 packages, 3 of which are rarely updated and it often skips the Team Fortress 2 Content package but updates Materials and Dedicated Server. On 7/5/2010 12:14 AM, Jesse Molina wrote: > Hi all > > I'm going to slightly threadjack here. I'm a very experienced unix > sysadmin, but I'm a noob to the hlds servers. > > On this subject, how do others handle automatic upgrading when there is > a new server update is out? Is it even wise to attempt auto updating? > > I know there is the -autoupdate arg to the startup command, but I'm > under the impression that it's broke, and has always has been broke. I > might be wrong there though, feel free to set me straight. > > So, how do others handle automatic updates to the server app? > > And yes, I realize that doing said auto updates may break mods, but hey, > whatever. > > Thanks > > > > Eric Riemers wrote: >> All, >> >> Since these mutators are coming every now and then, i need to update all my >> l4d2 instances. >> These are forks so the nicest thing to do is a shutdown, then it updates it >> and done. >> >> However, I only know that I should telnet to the fork port and type in >> "shutdown" >> >> Is there a easy way I can setup something in cron to issue a shutdown each >> day? >> >> Eric >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
