start-stop-restart

LinuxGSM provides an easy way to start, stop and restart your game server. LinuxGSM knows the location of the server binaries and inserts the start parameters to allow the server to start. LinuxGSM will also run various checks to prevent issues and apply any required server fixes to get the game server running.

Commands

Starting a server

Will start the server in a tmux session allowing the server to run in the background.

./gameserver start

Stopping a server

Stop will attempt a graceful shutdown of a game server. Failing this stop will kill the tmux session.

./gameserver stop

Stop only if empty (optional)

If the stoponlyifnoplayers setting is enabled, LinuxGSM will only stop the server when it is empty and prevent it from stopping otherwise. This feature requires gamedig and a working query (querymode 2 or 3).

stoponlyifnoplayers="off"

When a restart is requested while players are online, the restart is postponed rather than cancelled: LinuxGSM records a restart request and the monitor command will retry the restart automatically once the server is empty. Enable a monitor cronjob for postponed restarts to be carried out.

By default this protection applies to all commands that stop the server, including update. To limit it to only the explicit stop and restart commands (so an update can still stop the server even while players are online), set stoponlyifnoplayersallcommands to off.

# Apply "stop only if empty" to every command that stops the server (default).
stoponlyifnoplayersallcommands="on"
# Or limit it to explicit stop/restart only:
# stoponlyifnoplayersallcommands="off"

Restarting a server

Will simply stop, and then start the server.

./gameserver restart