[KroniK]

Im not sure how to go about checking the server to see if it is still running. I would like to have a start script that can every few minutes check to make sure that it is still running and restart it if necessary.

Please advise.

[UnlessMe]

I found this solution, I hope it works:

#!/bin/bash
while [ ! false ]
do
   # sleep 120 (120 seconds)
   ps cax | grep Quake3
   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
     echo "Process is running."
     # doing nothing...
   else
     echo "Process is not running."
     # restart the game: /path/to/game +parameters
   fi
   # sleep 120 (2 minutes)
done

You can slow down the speed of the script just adding "sleep SECONDS" at the begin or at the end of the script (like in the example), selecting the amount of time.

This post has been edited by UnlessMe: 01 October 2013 - 08:14 AM

[Qant]

In the support section theres another version of a restart script, following a cleaner approach by relying on the fact that starting the urt server is a "blocking call".

The following is basically the same script.. modified to copy the last couple of lines from your qconsole.log to your crash.log and to update symlinks used for custommaps to the q3ut4 and appropriate webspace folder.

#!/bin/bash

SELF=`readlink -f $0`	# getting the script's location
DIR=`dirname $SELF`		# since this is to be saved in the urt gamefolder

CRASHLOG=/path/to/your/desired/crash.log					# path to your desired crash.log
CONSOLELOG=/path/to/your/qconsole.log						# path to qconsole.log
CUSTOMMAPDIR=/path/to/your/custommapsfolder					# path to your custom maps
WEBSERVERMAPDIR=/path/to/your/webservers/maps/folder/incase/you/got/one/q3ut4	# path to your local dlurl folder

declare -a updatelocs
updatelocs[0]=$DIR/q3ut4
updatelocs[1]=$WEBSERVERMAPDIR

while true; do	
	# next loop will delete all symlinks in ur updatelocs folder
	# think of this incase you got other symlinks there, but 
	# those for custom maps	
	for updateloc in ${updatelocs[*]}; do
		find $updateloc -maxdepth 1 -lname '*' -exec rm {} \;
		for map in $CUSTOMMAPDIR/*; do
			ln -s -t $updateloc $map
		done
	done	
	
	# starting the server
	$DIR/Quake3-UrT-Ded.x86_64 +exec server.cfg 
	# server terminated ..
	echo -e "SHUTDOWN: "`date`"\r\n###################################################################" >> $CRASHLOG 
	tail -30 $CONSOLELOG >> $CRASHLOG
	echo -e "###################################################################\r\n\r\n\r\n" >> $CRASHLOG
done

The only problem with those scripts is, that there's some errors which don't seem to terminate the urt process, which in both cases renders the whole effort useless. Nevertheless, if you're going for something more elaborate, here's a more comprehensive example of a quake 3 start script, which also kinda justifies scheduling a task to restart if necessary.