Autostartup & restart

[Rengoku]

I’m hoping that someone can help me! For starters I'm pretty new to Linux as a whole...


I'm running xubuntu 10.10 as a MMO game server... I need to run 2 .sh files that after the server starts up I need to open 2 Terminal windows and type (./auth.sh & ./world.sh)... what I want to do is two things:


I want the server to restart everyday at 4am local.
I want the server to automatically start the servers in visual mode.



I can have Linux start up the game servers... but I cannot see the terminal windows, which I need to be able to type commands for the game.


I would very much appreciate if someone could help me!


Thank you for your time and help!

[zombykillah]

Hi,
you probably still have a server with usual init scripts.

You can create a file in the folder: /etc/init.d
Here are all scripts for the startup stored.

Here you have a general discription of the init scripts:Linux: How to write a System V init script to start, stop, and restart my own application or service
You may also read:
Cool Solutions: Creating Custom init Scripts

Just your start looks like:

start() {
        initlog -c "echo -n Starting Game service"
        "./auth.sh & ./world.sh" &
}

I'm not sure about the quotes ... you should test the script before you add it into the startup list

[Kloschüssel]

To start the service, you can safely follow zomykillah's approach. If "auth.sh" and "world.sh" are interactive, you may want to start them with a terminal multiplexer like screen or dtach. With that you can re-attach to those terminals whenever you need to. See "man screen" or "man dtach" for more information.