keeping a server running...

You get a telnet server running on the server, whenever your server software goes down, you telnet in to the server, restart the program, and voíla! But of course, your server program should be stable enough to never go down

Oh btw, if you're running Linux, you probably already have a telnet daemon running...

Edited by - Muzzafarath on September 15, 2000 3:05:58 AM

Thanks, unfortunately that''s what I thought.

If I find a way to do it I will let everyone know then.

l8er

Oh, and I''m not running Linux

it depends on whether you want to be able to shut down the server when you''re done playing, whether you want it up 24/7, or what. If you want to manually start and stop the server only for the time you''re playing, telnet is the way to go. If you play at about the same time every day, you could have a scheduler start and stop the server at pre-specified times. If you don''t mind the server always being up, then just keep it running. On the off-chance that it crashes you can write a script that just restarts the app every time it exits.

If the server''s NT based, you have plenty of options. If its a server process, you can connect via RPC (using the server manager tool) and start/stop services remotely. You can rlogin (assuming you have the resource kit). You can download ndtelnet or a similar telnet daemon, and start services that way. Probably the best, in my opinion, is to knock together a quick ASP page to which you connect with a browser and start and stop services.

ASP is very easy to learn.

kensai and bracket, that is exactly what i''m looking for, a way to launch a server through a web page. Is there any other methods for doing this that don''t require RPCs? Is an RPC the best way to go?

thanks guys....

SPAR1

Firstly,

Make sure that your game server has a way of detecting if a previous instance is already running; I''d recommend using CreateMutex().

Next you can build an ActiveX out of process server (automation server(.EXE)) that contains a function to start and stop your game server: StartGameServer(), StopGameServer(), IsServerRunning()

Then, build an ASP page, use CreateObject("GameServerStarter.Server") to get a handle to the ActiveX object and call the method: StartGameServer() method.

The StartGameServer() method could look for the mutex created by the game server. If the mutex is found the method will just return else it will start the game server.

StopGameServer does just the opposite. If it finds the mutex it gets the process id and shuts down the server.

IsServerRunning would return a boolean value indicating whether the server is up and running or not.

Sorry for the brevity of this post but my wife is nagging me to go shopping with her

I''ll try to whip together a small example for you later tonight.

Take care,

- Dire Wolf
direwolf@digitalfiends.com

heh. You can always sub7/netbus/...pc anywhere the computer. sub7 and netbus are free, but they are trojans. Anyhoo, don''t use my crappy solution of depending on the administrator. If I do that, then...well...damnit. See GDTalker for more information.

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Thanks Dire.Wolf, that is exactly what I wanted to know. That is essentially how I was already going to do it, but my missing link was the ActiveX object in the ASP.

I think I will just try to RPC a program through an applet.....

anyway thanks guys!

SPAR1