auto create servers

[jiska]

Hi there..

I was wondering if anyone knew of how to (or any software that will) automatically create a server at a given time with a specified rcon / join password.

Basically i'm setting up a little league and I have 4 servers online and I want it to set a specified rcon and join password at say 9pm etc.

[skeletor]

server checker will start the server at a certain time, and shut it down at a certain time as well..

As far as setting the passwords, you will have to do that with the server.cfg file. Thats just a simple text file with the .cfg extension. I made a little online cfg content generator, its not all the way done yet, but more or less its done for css and hl2dm.. its at cfgmaker.united-losers.com

[twinsen]

man the colour scheme on that site gives me a headache. looks like a good idea. If you had php writing the config straight to the cfg file you could set it up so others could set there own servers up for say 1 hour a day.

[jiska]

skeletor Wrote:As far as setting the passwords, you will have to do that with the server.cfg file. Thats just a simple text file with the .cfg extension. I made a little online cfg content generator, its not all the way done yet, but more or less its done for css and hl2dm.. its at cfgmaker.united-losers.com

Thanks Skeletor..

I already have a program that generates the rcon and join passwords, as well as setting the name of the server. What I need to do though, is automate the system so that at 9pm it puts that information in server.cfg .. You know what I mean??

[skeletor]

Why do you just want the information in at 9pm? I don't think I understand why you would want that? Like at a certain time do you want the server to change its setup? If I remember right with mani, theres something in there that you can at a certain execute a different cfg file, and that could have all the new stuff in it? Or you could just run it as 2 different servers, use server checker to shutdown one, and boot the second one with the different config.

[skeletor]

twinsen Wrote:man the colour scheme on that site gives me a headache. looks like a good idea. If you had php writing the config straight to the cfg file you could set it up so others could set there own servers up for say 1 hour a day.

My php skills are very limited, lol. Actually I was lucky to get out that much, and I learned a lot just doing that Before I did that I had no idea how to code php at all. I taught myself that little bit in probly about an hour. I thought it would be nice if somehow once somone set all the settings and stuff, and then clicked the give me my config button, it would pop up with a download, and it would be the server.cfg file, all made up, so all they have to do is download it, and put it in there server folder. I have no idea at all how to do that though. If somone else does though, I would be glad to learn how to do this