Best practices for hosting multiple servers

[janne]

Create a user & folder for the shared content.

Code:

sudo useradd -d/home/srcds -m srcds

Make a default srcds installation in that folder as user srcds.
Also if you want put some extra maps and plugins you need to be common for all servers. (if so, don't to edit maplist.txt etc...)

Then create the first user

Code:

sudo useradd -d/home/user1 -m user1

and as root create symbolic links from srcds

Code:

sudo cp -s -R /home/srcds/* /home/user1/

and replace user editable files with a fresh copy of their own

Code:

sudo rm /home/user1/cstrike/cfg/*
sudo rm /home/user1/cstrike/*.txt
sudo rm /home/user1/cstrike/*.db
sudo cp /home/srcds/cstrike/cfg/* /home/user1/cstrike/cfg/
sudo cp /home/srcds/cstrike/*.txt /home/user1/cstrike/
sudo cp /home/srcds/cstrike/*.db /home/user1/cstrike/

and set proper permissions for directories

Code:

sudo find /home/user1/ -type d -exec chown user1.user1 {} \;

and files

Code:

sudo chown user1.user1 /home/user1/cstrike/cfg/*
sudo chown user1.user1 /home/user1/cstrike/*.txt
sudo chown user1.user1 /home/user1/cstrike/*.db

the add user1 to group srcds so it can read its files

Code:

sudo usermod -a -Gsrcds user1

Repeat the user process for more servers.

All updates will this way only be needed on the shared content.
All users can edit their own configs and install new maps and plugins which wasn't part of the shared content.


GL!