Automatic scheduled updates with broadcast warn messages about ark-server-tools HOT 17 CLOSED

its not possible yet, maybe next week when we got rcon support
atm its not possible to send input to the gameserver from outside the game

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What you are requesting is actually exactly the way i'm going to implement it when RCON becomes available. Initial broadcast when a new update is found, informing players that the server will restart in a set amount of time, then initiate a countdown with broadcasts every 5 minutes or so.

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Heya
full automatic update ( update / restart ) , with broadcasts ingame that the server will restart ?

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read?

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@Betaman2k That is my plan, yes.

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What you want is not available from now until RCON is released by ARK devs. But you can use the arkdaemon script with crontab to apply update at some fixed time. Yu can also leave a message of the day to notify your connected user.
The arkdaemon script only work on Debian/Ubuntu and sysinit. Systemd version is comming.

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can u give me the bash script 4 update and message ingame ( update, message ingame and restart the server )
thx

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the script is called arkdaemon and it's in the repo. Checkout the dev1.1 branch to get the last revision of the file.
Then use

/etc/init.d/arkdaemon update

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Heya
ok, and now only a crontab
example 0 0 * * * /etc/init.d/arkdaemon update

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I wrote a little Ruby script that does a check for an update every 10 minutes (adjust as desired) using the rcon native program (released on some guy's blog site) to check for players before updating.

https://gist.github.com/allquixotic/f847a6fd8b606d628694

This script will update the server if the following conditions are satisfied:

• The server is up. If it's down, we won't try to do anything.
• No one is currently playing. For most servers there should be at least some time where there are 0 players. We can use this window to update without disturbing anyone.
• There is an update available on Steam (arkmanager checkupdate).

If any of the conditions is not true, the script will just wait another 10 minutes.

It repeats this process endlessly, forked in the background :)

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In order to support this, should we perhaps add a --warn option to the update command to have it warn players if the number of players connected is not zero? The admin could configure the amount of time it will warn the players for, and it could warn at decreasing intervals - e.g. 1h, 45m, 30m, 20m, 15m, 10m, 5m, 4m, 3m, 2m, 1m30s, 1m, 45s, 30s, 15s, 10s, 5s

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I like the idea

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@klightspeed this feature should be implemented with 1.3 right?

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Commit f3df26e would add this.

I can create a pull request with it into either 1.3 or master.

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Unfortunately this is not in master. Do we want to add it as a hotfix, or add it to 1.4?

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How can't this be in master? Didn't we just release 1.3? Isn't it routine to merge the dev branch into master upon release?
If we can patch it into the release, then lets do that.

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agree

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