Battlefield Startup Script

Mephisto · 07-30-2004, 07:15 PM

ok, the simple answer is if you want to use bfsmd, setting up a separate server script won't do much good. The problem is bfsmd does not have any way to shut it down from the command line. That said, since I said I would write one, here is a script using bfsmd. Put it in a file called rc.bfsmd in your /etc/rc.d directory modifying user name and paths as appropriate:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/rc.d/rc.bfsmd
#
#

case "$1" in
   'start')
      echo "starting bfsmd server" 
      su - bf1942user -c "/path/to/bfsmd/bfsmd -path /path/to/server/executable &" ;;
   'stop')
      echo "stopping bfsmd server"
      killall bfsmd ;;
   'restart')
      echo "stopping bfsmd server"
      killall bfsmd
      echo "restarting bfsmd server"
      su - bf1942user -c "/path/to/bfsmd/bfsmd -path /path/to/server/executable &" ;;
   *)
      echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart" ;;
esac

then in rc.local add this:

Code:

if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.bfsmd ]; then
  . /etc/rc.d/rc.bfsmd start
fi

If you want the server to start make sure rc.bfsmd is executable. If you decide you don't want it to start just remove execution permission. You don't have to do anything in close in this case since rc.0 effectively does the same thing as I am doing on stop, though at a larger scale.

I am not sure what bfsmd gives you versus starting the server with start.sh +statusMonitor 1. start.sh could be set up with a script as well, though in that case I would put it in a screen since it actually has a meaningful UI. It could also be set with a cleaner way to close, though there is nothing wrong with a killall in this case since it is using signal 15.

Mephisto · 07-30-2004, 07:20 PM

Oh yeah, and welcome to LQ.org!!

Munniac · 07-30-2004, 10:42 PM

okay, I did all that and did a chmod 777 on the servermanager.con, but I get this error on starting the script...

2004-07-29 21:39:13 : Couldn't open ServerSettings.con file for writing! Permission denied (13) Server Manager must have write access to this file, check file permissions and attributes.

I am openeing it with user bfserver.

I am not sure what to do on that at this point. All I know is chmod and don't know how to set specific permissions on a file per user.

Help this one last time and I will quit bugging you.

P.S. thank you SO much for your help thus far. I spent a long time trying to figure that out and you made it SO easy.

Mephisto · 07-31-2004, 05:22 AM

No problem. In the directory where ServerSettings.con sits do a "ls -l" and tell us what the ServerSettings.con line says. I suspect because of the directory location we might have to change the owner. So we need to compare permissions against who you are running it as. Speaking of which, who are you running it as?

Let's get it working first, but I would suggest using a umask of 744.