On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33:23AM +0200, Eric Riemers wrote: > Only in some cases the instance "hangs" and needs a proper kill or > something similar to restart.
If there's any way to reliably detect these hangs, some kind of watchdog cron job that restarts it automatically might be worth looking into. Finding out the cause of those hangs & fixing those would be even better but you can't have everything I guess... :) > I could create a webthingy that it places a file which can be checked with > a crontab and if found restart a screen/process but it sounds like someone > should have been there before me. For running / managing gameservers and other things in screen, I made this: https://github.com/frostschutz/Screen-Manager/blob/master/bin/sm However it does not offer any kind of remote management. If you already have a web service running on the machine, it'd probably be the best / easiest to use option. I used to have a Python daemon that allowed the client to connect through telnet and issue simple commands like ping server, show players, or restart. I'm using SSH instead now, with an authorized_keys entry that restricts the user to a specific action only, so it does not actually give shell access. For example the entry can look like this: command="manage-server.sh",no-agent-forwarding,no-port-forwarding,no-user-rc,no-X11-forwarding ssh-rsa AAAAQQQQ== AdminName Of course this requires the user to install an SSH client and generate an SSH key, although you can hide this complexity behind a Windows shortcut. Still, a web service would probably be much more comfortable, I just didn't want to install a web server and possibly PHP just for this... Regards frostschutz _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
