sending msg to a server running in a screen

[parksto]

hi,
is it possible to send messages to a server running in a "screen" ( launched with "screen -dmS nesuizserver ./launchNexuizServer.sh" )

i tried with -X and -S options of screen but didn't work.

have you got an idea, or a solution ?


ParkSTø

PS :
it's for atomatic stuff, of course. i think i can't use screen -r

[KadaverJack]

Try divVerent's RubyPlaces. It probably can do everthing you need and if not you can write a plugin or use sockets (tcp/udp/unix)...

[tChr]

screen -r nexuizserver1 will bring up the console, but are you trying to avoid that?

[parksto]

yes...

i'm trying to automate actions.

[Bl@nk]

in the small window where you see the happenings of the server. Yeah you just type what you want to say and it sends it to the server. or you type Say blah blah and it should work. I did that on mine and it worked.

[tChr]

What he is trying to do is to send messages automatically to a server running in a screen without really attaching to the screen first. He is working on a system to automate management of game servers iirc, and some games server, most, and expecially nexuiz doesnt like to be running in the BG, hence you use a scren, but making a script that connects to a screen, sned commands and then detaches again is a bit harder.

I'll let you know if I find out.

edit "screen" is a *nix console tool for virtual consoles, not the PC screen it self

[divVerent]

What he is trying to do is to send messages automatically to a server running in a screen without really attaching to the screen first. He is working on a system to automate management of game servers iirc, and some games server, most, and expecially nexuiz doesnt like to be running in the BG, hence you use a scren, but making a script that connects to a screen, sned commands and then detaches again is a bit harder.

And it's doomed to fail. I did that for some time... and it was not reliable at all. Main problems being: latency from "tail -f logfile" to my log reading script was quite long, and sometimes messages got mixed up when sending them to the screen's keyboard input buffer.

Well, this was then exactly what I wrote RubyPlaces for... even though some of it will get removed once Nexuiz 1.6 comes out (especially the map rotation handling which is finally good enough in 1.6), the other half is still the generic control framework and the IPC sources.

RubyPlaces: http://www.forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?t=39