Private Server saving issue

[edwinpeh]

i created my own server via Exi 's guide there. and its good i got my friends joining via my ip but one thing is when we play and we log out and when we log in again we are made to create new characters every single time i have no idea is there anyone that can help me with that? because i really wan my friends to play together with character saved and stuffs .

[Prouxx]

Was just about to post the exact same problem.

I'm running the server on ubuntu 14.04 with some xeon core and 32gb ram.

Starting the server with these options:

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#!/bin/bash
./ShooterGame/Binaries/Linux/ShooterGameServer TheIsland?QueryPort=27015?listen?SessionName=xxxx?MaxPlayers=50?
ServerAdminPassword=xxxx?ServerPVE=true?ServerCrosshair=true?AllowThirdPersonPlayer=true?MapPlayerLocation=true?
ServerHardcore=false -server -log

-Edit-
My server kept turning off when I closed putty so I ran the server_start.sh in screen. Not only did this stop the server from shutting down, I think it might have fixed the saving problem too. Awaiting verification.

-Edit2-
Pretty much 100% verified.

[edwinpeh]

Hi bro. What do you mean by you ran it in the screen?

[Prouxx]

Hey, sorry for the slow reply. I've been testing to see how this works with the update.

I'm a bit of a noob on linux so it might be better to wait to see if someone more experienced thinks what I'm doing isn't stupid.

First of all, I've read that you should never run your server as root, so log into an ssh account that isn't root.

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sudo screen

then fill in your password. This should open a screen session.

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./server_start.sh

this way runs the task as the user on my machine so I guess I'd recommend this.

There's another way of doing it, I got this method from the tf2 wiki. However, it runs the process as root so I'm not sure if it's the best to be using.

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sudo screen -m -S ark ./server_start.sh

it then prompts you for a password, fill that in and wait a couple of minutes and your server should be running nicely.

If you want to check that your server is running and under what user, use this

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top

or

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htop

Then, of course, if you want to kill your server, make sure to save it via the in game console, then use the PID of ShooterGameServ...like this:

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kill -KILL <PID>
e.g. kill -KILL 12345

I hope this helps. Btw, if anyone has any better way of shutting down a server that auto saves it, I'd like to know about it.