[Amroth]

Did you ever try ln -s instead of cp -rs? IMO ln -s better than cp -rs.

[Neevar]

will read up about them and their method of linking and try out.

whats the difference between the 2?

PS: I have little knowledge about these functions in linux. XD

[404UserNotFound]

Originally Posted by joropito It's a hard work. I suggest to create your own tar.gz file with your symlinks skeleton

Sorry for old thread bump, any info on how to do this? I want to try it myself.

[harrisonj11315]

As long as the drive its on is good read and write speed it likely is fine.

[Pitbull3]

Originally Posted by abrandnewday Sorry for old thread bump, any info on how to do this? I want to try it myself.

I fork almost all of my servers, have never had a single issue.

[Puppetmaster]

Originally Posted by Pitbull3 I fork almost all of my servers, have never had a single issue.

Ditto, I always run like this.

[404UserNotFound]

The only problem I have with the setup is that I'm using Linux Gameserver Manager, along with a Server Crontab plugin on each server (daily reboot of the server at 3am when the servers are all empty, I find that leaving a server running for like 2 weeks straight causes severe server-side server-wide framerate choppiness after a while), as well as Dr. McKay's Auto Steam Updater plugin.

I'm afraid of having multiple servers that run both those plugins trying to compete over updating using the same SteamCMD installation, and trying to update the same directory multiple times. That's my main worry. When I imagine it in my head, I foresee four servers trying to run the same SteamCMD and update the same files at the same time. This then causes a huge disaster in which the server install inevitably ends up horribly broken and the servers never end up starting back up.

So that leads me to believe that I need to design some sort of custom system that shuts down all my TF2 servers at the same time after 5 minutes when an update is detected (like Auto Steam Update), runs SteamCMD, updates the files, then when that's done, starts all the servers back up automatically.

And that seems like a daunting task to me. I may just be overthinking it though, as I have begun using cannabis a bit more than usual as of late.

[Puppetmaster]

Originally Posted by abrandnewday I may just be overthinking it though, as I have begun using cannabis a bit more than usual as of late.

I noticed the first problem with your setup here almost immediately. My servers tend to become inoperable when large amounts of cannabis are added to the setup. I generally find that cannabis is not needed at any point in the server pipeline and tends only to get stuck in the systems fans.

Originally Posted by abrandnewday ..I find that leaving a server running for like 2 weeks straight causes severe server-side server-wide framerate choppiness after a while), as well as Dr. McKay's Auto Steam Updater plugin.

The second bit I found equally interesting. I reboot daily although I do a complete system reboot, at 5am. Each one of mine run for around 23 hours 55 minutes. The machine is then completely rebooted and all issues that may have appeared more or less fix themselves. I dont use any managers or any of that stuff.

[lugui]

Yes. it is a bad Idea, but if you wann save disk space, just create a symlink to a "global" maps folder

[friagram]

works fine on windows, i do it for maps folder.