[spicytuna]

Some of the plugins on the server, especially ones that require
flag settings like sm_admin and our custom donation plugins.
Hlstats stopped working also.

We did not change any settings or upload a new file to the server overnight
so we have no idea what went wrong.
Is it possible this is some kind of exploit?
Funny thing is the donor plugins and admin plugin start working
once I refresh the admin cache, but it stops working again after map change.

Hlstats doesn't work though even after reloading admin.
Does anyone know what could cause this sort of thing?
I'd really appreciate any help. THank you.

Edit: Also all our servers are acting weird like this which is why I thought it might be exploit

[devicenull]

I'm going to guess, your server can no longer communicate with the database server. I doubt it's an exploit.

[spicytuna]

Could you elaborate on that please? We use mysql database
for donor plugins and for hlstats of course but they're seperate servers.
I think the server can still communicate with the donor plugin database at least
because as soon as I refresh the admin cache they start working again.

I am not getting any error logs regarding connecting to mysql server
so I don't think it is the case. This is driving us crazy please help!

[atom0s]

Try enabling full logging, if it's not already on.

For srcds logging, toss this in your server.cfg:

log on
sv_log_onefile 0
sv_logfile 1
sv_logbans 1
sv_logecho 1

For Sourcemod logging:

File: addons/sourcemod/configs/core.cfg

- Make sure 'Logging' is set to 'on'.
- Try setting 'LogMode' to 'map' to produce more logging files for better debugging. This can also help ensure your logs are saved in case a crash occurs.
- Try turning on 'DebugSpew' as well to get more information about something that might be happening at a lower level.

As for your plugins, they might have specific convars for their own debugging purposes, check them out and see if they have any settings you can adjust to help add more debug information to your logs to help identify the problem.

Just some ideas.

[spicytuna]

Alright, thank you very much.

log on
sv_log_onefile 0
sv_logfile 1
sv_logbans 1
sv_logecho 1

They were already in server.cfg, but I made the changes in core.cfg.
I just don't understand why this is happening to all the servers all of a sudden.
One of them we've had for 4 months and never had a problem like this.
The plugins and hlstats we've had for quite some time as well.

[spicytuna]

Still no error logs at all. If I refresh admin cache
the admin plugin and the donor plugins start working, but not hlstats.
Does anyone have similiar experience? I would really appreciate any help!
I have no idea what's going on. :S