Backgrounding.....

[Greg0rz]

Hi, im new to these forums, and i suppose to linux. My friend recently asked me to set up a few HL servers on his dedicated server. Whenever i background the command, i believe it is successful, as the HLDS console ......goes in the background....and the ssh console comes back up. But, when i exit ssh, the HLDS server goes down, and i lag out.

-Any help appreciated,
Greg0rz

[adam7979]

lol, HLDS, how familiar those were the days ...... no more college, no more CS

ok, back to the topic, you have two choices:

1)

nohup /path/to/hlds --map cs_dust --blablabla --maxplayers 20 &

(note the nohup and the trailing &)

this way, it sends the process into the background, and the only way to terminate it is by rcon in game or kill -9

2) use screen: (search for gnu screen from the net and should return you plenty of results, probably already included in your linux distro)

screen -A -m -d -S hlds /path/to/hlds --map cs_italy --blablabla --maxplayers 12

and you're returned with a shell prompt.... don worry. to access your hlds screen, type

screen -r hlds

and you're in, while in the hlds console, to "quit" from screen session, use ctrl-a, release ctrl and press d

a ha, good luck

[adam7979]

the script that i wrote years ago:

#!/bin/sh
#####################################################
# script to start halflife dedicated server on linux
# only a specific user is allowed to run this
#
# by: adam7979
#####################################################

#the home directory for the normal user
NORMALUSER="/home/adam"

#the normal user's login name
USERNAME="adam"

#the halflife dedicated server's directory
HALFLIFEDIR="/halflife/hlds_l"

#full path to this script plus it's name 

THISSCRIPTNAME="/halflife/hlds_l/startserver"

#end of user input
#############################################################################

if [ "$USERNAME" = "$USER" ]; then
  echo "id identified. proceed..."
  else
  echo "id denied. existing."; exit
fi


testhlds=`ls $NORMALUSER/.screen|grep hlds|awk -F. {'print $1'}`
echo "testhlds is $testhlds"

if `kill -CHLD $testhlds >/dev/null 2>&1`;
  then
   echo "Server already started. See now? (y/n)";
   read decision
   case $decision in 
     y|Y ) screen -r hlds; exit;;
     n|N ) echo "exiting..."; exit ;;
   esac
  else
   if test -e $NORMALUSER/.screen/$testhlds.hlds; then
    rm $NORMALUSER/.screen/$testhlds.hlds > /dev/null
   fi
fi


HOME=$NORMALUSER
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HALFLIFEDIR:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
ip=`/sbin/ifconfig eth0|grep "inet addr:"|awk -F: {'print $2'}|cut -d\    -f 1`

echo "starting counter-strike dedicated server."
echo "maxplayers? (default: 28)"
read mp

case $mp in "" ) mp=28 ;;
esac
echo "map available:"
cd $HALFLIFEDIR/cstrike/maps
ls -C *.bsp
echo "map? (default: de_dust)"
read map

case $map in "" ) map=de_dust ;;
esac

echo "maximum player: $mp"
echo "map           : $map"
echo "server ip     : $ip"
echo "is that correct? (y/n)"

read decision
case $decision in 
   n|N ) exec $THISSCRIPTNAME ;;
   y|Y ) cd $HALFLIFEDIR; screen -A -m -d -S hlds ./hlds_run -game cstrike +maxplayers $mp +map $map +sv_lan 1 -nomaster +ip $ip ;;
esac
echo "starting server. please wait..."
sleep 1
echo "."
sleep 1
echo "."
sleep 1
echo "."
echo " "

$THISSCRIPTNAME

[Greg0rz]

thanks for the help guys ^_^, i got it running now