Start game server at boottime.

jp_ · 10-07-2005, 02:19 PM

I'm wonder the best way to start a game server at boottime. I have slackware 10.2.

The custom command to launch the server is:

etded +set vm_game 0 +set fs_game etpro +exec server.cfg

keefaz · 10-07-2005, 02:31 PM

Put this line at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local, that should be fine

jp_ · 10-07-2005, 02:49 PM

I added this line to rc.local. Rebooted the system. The server did not run. Ideas?

Here are rc.local's permissions.

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 171 2005-10-07 15:40 rc.local

keefaz · 10-07-2005, 02:52 PM

Where is server.cfg file ? Also does it need to be started as a particular user ?

When you execute the line you posted in a terminal, does it start well ?

jp_ · 10-07-2005, 08:03 PM

The server config files is in the same directory as the executable.

The game is started by any user.

If I execute that command manually the server does start as I configured. I still cant seem to make Slackware start this process with those paramaters at boot time. Thanks for helping. Ideas?

dive · 10-08-2005, 01:25 AM

have you tried putting full path to etded?
do you get any errors messages about it not able to run?

nukey · 10-08-2005, 07:48 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dive
have you tried putting full path to etded?

And to the config file..

Maybe this works

/path/to/etded +set vm_game 0 +set fs_game etpro +exec /path/to/server.cfg

spooge · 10-08-2005, 12:12 PM

when i was running game servers i used cron to run a script every 10-15min
the script would check if the game(s) were running.

kinda nice thing, i'll look it up
and post if i dont forget

snickwad · 10-10-2005, 01:51 PM

Not sure where it is setup, but would suspect that the path to the executable is not included in the PATH variable. Not sure where this is setup; unfortunately not got access to my Slack box as I am at work

. You would need to add the path to the directory where the executable is after the other defaults, so it is something like PATH=/xxx/xx/x:/cc/c:/PATH TO YOUR EXECUTABLE.

Hopefully someone can update where this is configured.

Best of luck,

snickwad