Pushing a LF to a screen

Ghostwheel · 02-22-2007, 01:53 PM

History: I am running a BF2 server and would like to be able to start/stop the server with cron.

I run the bf2 server in a screen. I have found commands to push commands to a screen (-X stuff <command>) but it doesn't perform a LF after. Example: I am able to push an "exit" to the screen but it doesn't cause the screen to end, when I manually reattach there is an "exit" sitting at the prompt.

dannystaple · 02-22-2007, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghostwheel

History: I am running a BF2 server and would like to be able to start/stop the server with cron.

I run the bf2 server in a screen. I have found commands to push commands to a screen (-X stuff <command>) but it doesn't perform a LF after. Example: I am able to push an "exit" to the screen but it doesn't cause the screen to end, when I manually reattach there is an "exit" sitting at the prompt.

I know this may sound too simple, but have you tried quoting your <command> string and following it with a \n?

Danny

Ghostwheel · 02-26-2007, 09:29 AM

Just tried it. Didn't work

I also tried just adding a \n after the exit, still no joy

dannystaple · 03-05-2007, 10:45 AM

Ghostwheel, did you get anywhere with this? I will investigate further tonight - it seems to obvious a thing to want to do for it not to be usable.

What did the \n do? Hopefully you did not see '\''n' appended to the command. Alternatively (the other end of the escaping system), you might need to escape it further with \\n.