autoupdate for dedicated source server

[rishi211]

hello all -

I have a dedicated source server running on Windows and I am trying to configure it to autoupdate whenever there are new patches/fixes from Steam. Sometimes I don't play for a few days and the server is no accessible until I run the update.

I have the following when starting my server and I thought the -autoupdate would take care of that.

-game cstrike -console +ip 72.51.41.12 -port 27015 +maxplayers 32 +map de_dust2 -tickrate 66 -autoupdate

Any help to have the server autoupdate would be greatly appreciated.  

I can manually update it with no issues, but would be nice not to have to worry about the new updates when they come out.

Thanks all!

[Hollanda]

autoupdate wont work with windows.

If you have root access you can set a scheduled task to update every morning (shutdown server first, can be done with serverchecker).

Don't forget you have to update mods very often after VALVe updates.

[rishi211]

Hollanda Wrote:autoupdate wont work with windows.

If you have root access you can set a scheduled task to update every morning (shutdown server first, can be done with serverchecker).

Don't forget you have to update mods very often after VALVe updates.

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately I don't access to the physical box to run any scheduled tasks. Also I did find out (the hard way), that Valve updates breaks the mods or changes the gameinfo.txt file so the mods don't all work.

Thanks again, hopefully Valve will fix it so Windows servers can autoupdate via the command line.

[Hollanda]

every update gameinfo.txt is replaced by the original one...

which mods aren't working?

[rishi211]

Hollanda Wrote:every update gameinfo.txt is replaced by the original one...

which mods aren't working?

They are all working, I just have to add the line for the meta mod in the gameinfo.txt.

I only run mani-mod, glittermod, and metamod (required for glittermod).

[Hollanda]

Hollanda Wrote:every update gameinfo.txt is replaced by the original one...

[grandslamjmh]

i have a problem i have my server updated and all my mods are update to the most recent mods.

but when i start my server it says connected to server and does everything normal but then it says
"your server is out of date please update and restart" now i do that and it says it again

whats the problem if nothing is out of date

[Hollanda]

reupdate the server

[grandslamjmh]

well every time i update it, it updates nothing like theres no neew files

[rishi211]

What's your update command line and switches you are using?

[Hollanda]

same question

[grandslamjmh]

hldsupdatetool -command update -game "Counter-Strike Source" -dir c:\srcds

the mods that i have are:
gungame
rpg

i tried and put the original gameinfo.txt in and it still didnt work

[rishi211]

I use the same line above, can you capture the beginning of the output when you run that and post it here?

[grandslamjmh]

what do u mean

[rishi211]

When you run the update, it opens a new windows or runs within the command window you have. Can you cut and paste that info here?