Follow-up on this issue.
I noticed that css and hl2mp now respect the -strictportbind option too.
I've updated my control script.
One thing that I noticed is that unless the -norestart option is also
given, the server will loop forever, trying to start. This was verified
with TF2, CSS, and HL2MP. That's not good because of the benchmark
going before the ports resource check and whatnot. Good thing for the
ten second sleep.
I would propose that the desired behavior is that for any startup error,
the error should be given on stderr and an appropriate exit code be
given. The server process should only restart if it has reached a
certain point of validity, where it can be considered up and running.
After all, I imagine that the auto-restart function is intended as a
crash recovery option for valid runnable servers.
I guess could always use -norestart in my own control script and write
my own while loop to restart on crashes... See, this is where exit
codes are useful. That srcds_run script could trap that easily in the
while loop you've got there. Oh well, I'll think about it.
l4d and l4d2 do not seem to know about "-strictportbind" yet. I realize
there is the -fork option that makes it more complicated. I would just
assume to make the two options incompatible together.
Jesse Molina wrote:
Thank you very much for implementing this. I hope this gets implemented
in the other Valve srcds games too.
I've got a host with two IPs and eleven srcds games that could all
potentially be running at the same time.
So, I tested by copying one of my TF2 server directories to make a clone
of it, started up the first one, then started up the clone.
Here's what the ports in my config file looks like;
CLIENTPORT="27013"
HOSTPORT="27113"
TVPORT="27213"
STEAMPORT="26013"
REPLAYPORT="27413"
The default behavior was that the clone clobbered the next positive
incremental available port.
This was on the console;
WARNING: Port 27113 was unavailable - bound to port 27114 instead
WARNING: Port 27013 was unavailable - bound to port 27014 instead
WARNING: Port 27213 was unavailable - bound to port 27214 instead
WARNING: Port 27413 was unavailable - bound to port 27414 instead
Network: IP 66.113.99.100, mode MP, dedicated Yes, ports 27114 SV /
27014 CL
Verified with lsof.
When I added the "-strictportbind" argument to the command, it did
indeed bail out and this was on the console;
ERROR: Port 27113 was unavailable - quitting due to "-strictportbind"
command-line flag!
"echo $?" returned exit code 100 from srcds_run. As someone else
mentioned, exit codes are great for those of us who have written control
wrappers.
The command line used was;
sudo -H -u hlds sh -c cd
/home/hlds/srcds-servers/server-tf2-JMOMOTEST/orangebox ;
/home/hlds/srcds-servers/server-tf2-JMOMOTEST2/orangebox/srcds_run -game
tf -ip 10.10.99.100 +clientport 27013 +hostport 27113 +tv_port 27213
-steamport 26013 +replay_port 27413 -strictportbind -norestart -pidfile
/home/hlds/srcds-servers/server-tf2-JMOMOTEST/server.pid -maxplayers 24
+map pl_goldrush
One thing to note is that I had to stty sane/reset my terminal after it
failed because local echo was messed up. It's not like I normally run it
interactively anyway, but that could annoy some noob.
Steven Hartland wrote:
Thanks Jon, just what the doctor ordered :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Lippincott"
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Good idea.
I added a check for "-strictportbind." Without this, the engine will
print a warning, otherwise it will print an error and quit.
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