[done] "Close after this game" Option for Headless Server

[titi_son]

I think it would be a great future for the headless server if you just can write something like

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stopaftergamein the Terminal and then the headless server close after the game which is running on it.

We often run a headless here if we see that the servers are all full but if we want to shut down the Computer we often see that a new game has Started on the server and we don't want to break this game. But if we could about a hour before we shut down just use this command it would be nice.

I am not sure if i am the only one who want this feature. So what do you think?

[tomreyn]

I guess this could be useful for people who run a headless server on a desktop computer.

You can already achieve this now with a little bit of scripting, though. Run the headless server with --headless-server-mode=vps,exit in a loop which can get interrupted by, e.g., presence of a file

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~/.megaglest/quit_after_this_gameThen when you want to shutdown, just create this file and the headless server will quit after the currently running or the next started game is over.

[titi]

maybe we should provide a start script to run headless servers?

[tomreyn]

You mean something like ... this?
Admittedly the current script is rather simple and it surely could be improved (or rewritten). Then it could make a good addition to the subversion repository.

[softcoder]

Is this feature request considered done then?

[titi_son]

yes, --headless-server-mode=exit is what i wanted...