dedicated server runs silent?

(Kamel) #1

i was just wondering if by default a dedicated server would run silent… or if it doesn’t, is there a trigger for it?

i’m wondering because i’m thinking about hosting a dedicated box from a place i have shell access to, but i don’t want the console to be seen from the desktop… the processes of course it doesn’t matter or whatever, just to get rid of it on the taskbar and the applications menu.

thanks… any help or insight on this subject would be much appreciated.

if you hadn’t guessed, the server is windows 2000, lol

(Fenris) #2

Just some thoughts, does the server have terminal services, in that case you could maybe just login to a ts session and start the game from there. It will be visible whenever you log in again, but not at the actual console. Just make sure that ts sessions are not configured to terminate if users haven’t been active for x hours :wink:

An alternative is maybe to create a batchfile that starts up your commandline (wolfet +exec whatever +etc etc) and then create a service to start that batchfile. This way you could just telnet into the server and execute “net start wolfbatch” or “net stop wolfbatch”, wolfbatch being the name of the service (but for actual stopping I think /rcon quit would be nicer to the server)

The last part I haven’t tried personally on ET, only on other applications, but it should work, when in windows I’ve only used the ts session alternative yet.

(Kamel) #3

well, the only problem with the user account is that the account is shared… which is primarily why i wanted it to run silent, heh.

thanks for the suggestions… i might be able to work something out, didn’t think you could get it to run as a service like that, but it’s worth a try i suppose.

(Fenris) #4

Actually with the INSTSRV.EXE and SRVANY.EXE you can make almost anything run as a service as long as the application does not require interaction (such as pressing a dialogbutton etc)

The SRVANY.DOC documentation included explains in detail how to set up the service, all 3 components are available in the W2K server resource kit (CD)

We use this extensively at my work when we get poorly written serverapps :drink:

In addition to this rather simple free utility there are a bunch of payware available on the net as well but usually this one does the trick for you.