On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Eben King wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Ian Blenke wrote:
>
> > Robert E. Schaefer wrote:
> > > What I looking for is a way to autostart 6 different
> > > instances of this at runlevel 3 and way of checking to make sure that
> > > all the servers are running and restart any that have crashed.
> >
> > When running game servers, I've found it best to use a script wrapper
> > with an infinite loop (also, run it as a user like "halflife", NOT AS
> > ROOT, it's just a smart thing to do):
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > # Create this as "restartscript.sh" in your path
> > while /bin/true; do
Oh yeah; you can make that "while : ; do", which, being evaluated by the
shell, reduces the number of fork/execs.
> > echo $$ > /var/run/restartscript.pid
> > su - halflife -c ./hlds_run
And you might want to make this "echo blah > blah && sudo blah blah"; in
case the echo fails (filesystem full, permission denied, whatever), the
sudo doesn't get run. You probably should use sudo instead of su, as su
won't be passwordless for non-root.
> Don't forget to put a "sleep" in here; else; if something's wrong with
> hlds_run, this script will go into a fast loop.
>
> > done
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