[Freeciv-Dev] automaticly restarting script

[Bernhard Kuemel <darsie@xxxxxx>]

Hi!

freeciv is great and I think a lot more people would offer
permanent servers, if they would automatically restart as the
ones at civserver.freeciv.org do. You obviously already have such
scripts, but I still sat down and wrote one myself (this adds to
my linux experience). It's a quick and dirty thing, but it works
rather well, IMO. You can include it in the distribution package,
e.g. in a contrib directory. Otherwise, maybe supply your
scripts. Ahh, yes, you may add a GPL license statement.

One thing that's missing is saving and restoring games. I thought
of doing that with expect as well, but I guess there are better
ways to do that.

Bye, Bernhard

ps: I'm not subscribed to this list.

#!/usr/bin/expect -f

set quit 0

#while {1} {

spawn civserver -r rc -m

set timeout 1
expect_background "The map has" {
        send_user "expect: game start detected\n"
        expect_background "Lost connection" {
                set quit 1
                send "list\n"
                expect {
                        "is connected from" { set quit 0 }
                        "is being observed from" { set quit 0 }
                }
                if {1==$quit} {
                        send "metainfo restarting in 60 s for lack of players\n"
                        set quitid [after 60000 {
                                send_user "expect: quitting ...\n"
                                send -i $spawn_id "quit\n"
                        }]
                }
        } "has rejoined the game." {
                if {1==$quit} {
                        after cancel $quitid
                        set quit 0
                        send_user "expect: quit cancelled :)\n"
                        send "metainfo Players welcome\n"
                }
        }
}

interact
wait

#}
#while

#!/usr/bin/expect -f

while {1} {
        spawn ./xcs
        interact
        wait
}