I believe there is a difference. If you use quit with players on the
server it will drop everyone from the server with a message saying the
server is shutting down. If you use _restart with players on the server
it will run a connection failure on clients and only time them out after 12
seconds I believe.
I know this difference because I run a script that basically issues the
retry on clients on the server then instantly issues the _restart
command. This will cause the server to restart while clients are still
trying to connect. If the server loads up fast enough it will then allow
clients to continue connecting to the server without being dropped. You
can't do this method with the quit command.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Jesse Molina je...@opendreams.net wrote:
Dear Valve
I've written my own Linux server manager tool which acts as a replacement
for the srcds_run script, and a number of server admins use it to manage
their servers.
Recently I had a user ask me why the _restart console command caused the
server to quit instead of restart.
The answer is that _restart on the console is, as far as I can tell,
identical to the quit command. In both instances, the srcds_linux server
shuts down and quits with exit code 0.
I would like to make a feature request. Please make the _restart console
command quit with a specific exit code to indicate to the parent process
that it should be restarted.
Alternatively, create a new console command which causes the server to
quit with a specific exit code.
Just to be clear: This exit code would specifically be reserved as a
signal to the parent process that the server process should be restarted.
It should not be interpreted as being a crash or an otherwise unexpected
event.
One way or another, there needs to be a differentiation between the quit
and _restart commands.
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