[Pitbull3]

I run a lot of servers, and when it comes to updating sourcemod it was really a drag... no literally, drag & drop 50 times. So I created an easy way a while back to update servers via linux & wanted to post it here for any other linux server owners to be able to update their servers SM installs quicker and easier.

This can be edited to do whatever you want it to do, and any version of sourcemod you want to run, for example I'll be using my "csgo" SM updater as we run the newest versions of SM 1.8 on our CSGO servers but some of our TF2 servers run 1.7, so modify it as you will.

We're removing all of the files that you don't want overwritten before we copy them to our SM directories. Such as the CFG folder, admin_*.cfg's & databases.cfg, ect,ect... this way we're just updating SM & not overwriting your edited files. (That would suck!)

To change the SM version just edit the line: wget -O smcsgoupdate.tar.gz 'http://sourcemod.net/latest.php?version=1.8&os=linux' & change the version=1.8 to whatever version you want.

Steps:

1.) Create a file "smcsgoupdate" doesn't need an extension as we'll be using ./smcsgoupdate to run it.
2.) Copy the contents of the following code into that file.

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/updaters
rm -rf /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/*
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate.tar.gz
wget -O smcsgoupdate.tar.gz 'http://sourcemod.net/latest.php?version=1.8&os=linux'
tar zxvf smcsgoupdate.tar.gz -C /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo
rm -rf /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/cfg
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/admin_groups.cfg
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/admin_levels.cfg
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/admin_overrides.cfg
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/adminmenu_cfgs.txt
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/adminmenu_custom.txt
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/adminmenu_grouping.txt
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/adminmenu_sorting.txt
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/admins.cfg
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/admins_simple.ini
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/banreasons.txt
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/databases.cfg
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/configs/maplists.cfg
rm -rf /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/logs
rm -rf /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/data
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/GPLv2.txt
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/GPLv3.txt
rm /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/LICENSE.txt
cp -R /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo /home/gameservers/csgo
cp -R /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/* /home/gameservers/csgo/csgo/addons/sourcemodforkedservername

3.) I recommend after editing the file & saving / uploading it you run dos2unix smcsgoupdate to fix any windows/dos text editing invisible character codes that may break the file. You can install dos2unix easily, yum install dos2unix / apt-get install dos2unix. Info on dos2unix http://dos2unix.sourceforge.net/
4.) After you've edited your paths correctly to your servers run the file ./smcsgoupdate


There's multiple ways you can do this, if you run regular server-by-server in their own folders edit the line accordingly:

cp -R /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo /home/gameservers/csgo
cp -R /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo /home/gameservers/csgo2
cp -R /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo /home/gameservers/csgo3

ect..

If you run forked SM servers edit the lines accordingly:

cp -R /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/* /home/gameservers/csgo/csgo/addons/sourcemodforkedservername
cp -R /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/* /home/gameservers/csgo/csgo/addons/sourcemodforkedservernam2
cp -R /home/updaters/smcsgoupdate/csgo/addons/sourcemod/* /home/gameservers/csgo/csgo/addons/sourcemodforkedservernam3

[Bacardi]

Well, upgrading SM, you don't need worry server configs and settings,
if you just upload these folders

bin
extensions
gamedata
translations

...and overwrite files.
And to make sure all files get overwritten, server need to be shutdown or mm:s unloaded. At least on OS Windows.

[Pitbull3]

Originally Posted by Bacardi Well, upgrading SM, you don't need worry server configs and settings, if you just upload these folders bin extensions gamedata translations ...and overwrite files. And to make sure all files get overwritten, server need to be shutdown or mm:s unloaded. At least on OS Windows.

Yea this is for linux, since you don't need to shutdown the servers as you can overwrite "in-use" files, once sourcemod's extensions get overwritten the server will auto-restart.

You do need to update the plugins folder as from time to time they update the base SM plugins as well.

[Bacardi]

Yea, you're right, I forget that folder.

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by Pitbull3 Yea this is for linux, since you don't need to shutdown the servers as you can overwrite "in-use" files, once sourcemod's extensions get overwritten the server will auto-restart. You do need to update the plugins folder as from time to time they update the base SM plugins as well.

The server will almost certainly crash during the process.

[Pitbull3]

Originally Posted by Powerlord The server will almost certainly crash during the process.

"the server will auto-restart."

[B3none]

Super useful, thanks.