[DeaD_EyE82]

steam -command update -game "Counter-Strike Source" -dir ~/masterserver/
mkdir -p ~/configexample/cstrike/cfg

touch ~/configexample/cstrike/cfg/server.cfg
touch ~/configexample/cstrike/cfg/autoexec.cfg
touch ~/configexample/cstrike/maplist.txt
touch ~/configexample/cstrike/mapcycle.txt
#make empty files for your configexample
#you can edit them, before you will start to create your servers

mkdir ~/server1
mkdir ~/server2
mkdir ~/server3
mkdir ~/server4

cp -R ~/configexample/* ~/server1/
#cp -sR ~/mappool/* ~/server1/ #maybe you have a big mappool for all your serers
cp -sR ~/masterserver/* ~/server1/

cp -R ~/configexample/* ~/server2/
cp -sR ~/masterserver/* ~/server2/


cp -R ~/configexample/* ~/server3/
cp -sR ~/masterserver/* ~/server3/

...

then upload your plugins und different configs.

After an update you have to create new symlinks. Sometimes the srcds gets some new files and often files are removed by steam too.

Update your Symlinks with cp -sR ~/masterserver/* ~/server1/ $>/dev/null

The redirection to /dev/null is required to supress the errors.

Some times Symlinks are broken. You can use this command to delete all broken Symlinks in your server

find -L ~/server1 -type l -delete

For easier handling you can create a subdir for the real servers. Only the masterserver should't be in the same subdir (for better overview)

With symlinks you will safe much space on your hardisk. Updates are faster, because you have only to update the masterserver and after this, if required, update your symlinks.

For a big mappool you can create a mappool dir with the same strucure as the masterserver (~/mappool/cstrike ~/mappool/csrtike/maps ...)

After you have uploaded a new map into ~/mappool/csrtike/maps you have to refresh the symlinks of all your servers:

cp -sR ~/mappool/* ~/server1/ &> /dev/null
cp -sR ~/mappool/* ~/server2/ &> /dev/null
cp -sR ~/mappool/* ~/server3/ &> /dev/null
cp -sR ~/mappool/* ~/server4/ &> /dev/null
cp -sR ~/mappool/* ~/server5/ &> /dev/null

Now you can change the Map on your server. If you are Using a Webserver on the same Host, you can create a symlink from mappool in your Webdirectory. You have to allow symlinks in your Webserverconfig.

In the other case (rented Webserver or other root,vserver e.g) you can use for syncing your mappool with the webspace the tool lftp (supports mirroring) or rsync, when you have ssh access on your host.

Maybe there are some others who interested for using symlinks in conjunction of gameservers.

All big providers are using this concept (mappool exluded).
Maybe they realize the fastdl with a combination of a php-script and a shell-script. For my server I'm using a little script, which will make a compressed mappool for fastdownload.

[BentByBogus]

Thank you for giving me a short example.
Though I would prefer using 'Multiple or Forked Servers (SourceMod)' because that is more appealing to me unless there is an clear advantage by using symlinks. Care to shortly elaborate on that?