[TF2] Restart server at end of map when connection to Steam is lost

jasonfrog · **Author**

Afaik, the only way to restore a TF2 dedicated server's connection to Steam, so that the TF2 weapons loadout availability is restored, is to reboot the server.

Is there are way to detect this, and then reboot at the end of the current map when this happens? Perhaps with a csay message just beforehand informing what is happening and why.

Chris-_-

Probably, if the server auto-restarts once you execute the "quit" server command.

BrutalGoerge

linux server, right?

Mine seems to be hit or miss, sometimes it regains its connection right away, like a windows server, sometimes it never regains it unless it restarts

jasonfrog

Correct, yeh it's Linux.
In the case of the servers that I look after, it's never.

bl4nk

Didn't Valve push out a patch a while back so that the servers would auto-reconnect once the connection was lost? It might take a few minutes to work, but I'm pretty sure it does.

jasonfrog · *Last edited by jasonfrog; 05-14-2009 at 16:02.*

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Originally Posted by bl4nk

Didn't Valve push out a patch a while back so that the servers would auto-reconnect once the connection was lost? It might take a few minutes to work, but I'm pretty sure it does.

Well if they did then it isn't working, at least on Linux. I've had servers that have lost connection for hours without reconnecting.

Cooltad

On Windows if my connection is ever lost it reconnects again within a few minutes.

jasonfrog

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cooltad

On Windows if my connection is ever lost it reconnects again within a few minutes.

This doesn't happen under Linux.

theevilchipmunk

I have windows and need to reboot after losing connection to steam.