Code/File/Utlity to auto restart unreal server

[BassPwr]

Hi,

I know game server hosting companies have a feature in place that auto starts an unreal server again if it goes down for some reason.

I was wondering if this code/file/utility is freely known/available so that home server users can make use of it?

does anyone know how to go about doing this?

thanks

[}TCP{Carnage]

The simplest thing would be to make a .Bat file and start the server from there

this is how our MM server's .Bat file looks for example

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:start
E:\Unreal\System_MM\Unreal.exe DMLabyrinth.unr?game=UTeamFix.DeathMatchGameFix port=8888 -server
goto start

[BassPwr]

thanks carn, I was thinking it might be done with a bat file, but I think that's just a normal start server bat which I know how to do, what I mean is, if the server crashes/goes down while out of the house/away from server machine, it needs to be told to restart itself and was hoping there is a way to do it easily.

[BassPwr]

SoulReaver posted an excellent detailed guide on how to do it over at hyper forums

http://www.unrealdestination.com/client ... 882202f690

[}TCP{Wolf]

And what did he tell you Carnage hadn't already told you? What SoulReaver calls "loop" Carnage called "start"... big deal. The solutions are virtually identical, so what makes SoulReaver's batch file an "out of the ordinary" startfile while Carnage's is just a "normal server start bat" if they both do exactly the same...?

Maybe I am missing something here... just wondering...

[Hyper]

If you want a somewhat more advanced batch file which renames and saves the logfile, check my site. ("Lab" page.)

[BassPwr]

Appears I have stepped on a few toes, apologies. You're missing something wolf, and that is my lack of knowledge that start and loop do the same thing in a bat file for an unreal server. Seeing start I just thought was a solution to start a server and not recover it after a crash. I've used simple bat files before to start servers, but can now tell you it was just a simple one, and didn't feature anything extra like start/loop lines.

so thank you carnie.

I was looking to use the code to support a couple of home run servers including a small inf one for xtc since the rented one is going to run out.

news: http://www.createforum.com/xtcforum/vie ... m=xtcforum
discussion: http://www.createforum.com/xtcforum/vie ... m=xtcforum

I respect the help and knowledge others give back to the unreal community, it's all appreciated.

1 person who I talked to about it was not going to help me with this and provide the info for free.

2 sides to every coin.

I don't know soulreaver, but I thought it was a gem to come across such a guide.

the guide below also made interesting reading, but not suitable for xp I think.

http://theadminpage.planetunreal.gamesp ... chFile.htm

I will definitely check that out hype, thanks. I love your site, excellent stuff.

[}TCP{Wolf]

A very handy tool to rename log files is DATELOG. After that, the logfile will just have the name of the current timestamp, so everything is even sorted correctly.