Utility: Linux Admining

[Gandalf Parker]

Whenever anyone requests a game I copy a script from another game and edit it. Whenever I see some of the always open public games have been taken I run a script to create another to take its place. Many of those involved special variables unique to that game, or even randomly decided features. So restarting games was rather a pain.

Recently I had one of the head-slapping *DOH* moments. While the script creating the game is running have it record the settings. So now each script writes the long start command to the game directory into a script named restart.sh

So now, when the machine reboots, all that needs done is

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/dominions3/savedgames

for fyle in `ls */restart.sh`
do
   $fyle
   sleep 10s
done

Ive extended the gap to 10 seconds between each restart. My first effort with no gap restarted 70 games within a minute. 24 hours later about 50 of them tried to host at the same time. Not good. Then I set it too long but even a 1minute gap would mean over an hour before all the games would be restarted. So for now Im trying 10s.