Is there any way to get the nwnx server to restart in game?

Lazarus Magni · Joined: 15 Jun 2011 Posts: 30

I have the reset plugin which is working great, however sometimes I want to restart the server more frequently to test an update I uploaded, but unfortunately I dont have access to the nwnx.exe on the server which means every time I want to do this I have to bother my server host. Does anyone have any ideas on how I might be able to do this (without allowing players in general to be able to)?

Skywing · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 321

If you try writing a script to boot all PCs and then call EndGame(), does that exit the server (and then cause it to get restarted by the NWNX watchdog)?

Lazarus Magni · Joined: 15 Jun 2011 Posts: 30

That's a good question, I have no idea. Sadly that is way beyond my capabilites to do, and test. (I am not a scripter unfortunately.)

Lokey · Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 158

80% sure it doesn't Skywing. Leaves the server up with no module loaded iirc... Ok fine. I'll test it. Calling EndGame(""); on module load didn't close the server, log did not generate the still alive . every heartbeat, but that might be a setting I turned off too.

On linux there's the reset plugin (simple kill process), on windows there's an old plugin that forces a crash generally available. There's explanations around about how to do better in specific environments. There's no general able to cleanly kill the server plugin in windows I know of, been bugging Zebranky on difficulty of doing that Smile

There's still things that can be done, but nothing at the drop in and go level I know of. Certainly nothing that requires no scripting, no environment set-up, etc...

Paul R · Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 42

PlasmaJohn · Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 70 Location: The Garage

Calling exit() worked under both Linux and Windows. Not sure why people went and made it all complicated.

Lazarus Magni · Joined: 15 Jun 2011 Posts: 30

Thanks for the replies everyone, sorry about the delay getting back.

Paul, As far as what type of restart, idealy something that would make nwnx take a fresh read of the module, haks, ini's. and releasing the memory cache. DLLs, I am not to worrited about needing to force fresh reads from as I won't be messing with them much more except for perhaps resman, or updates, and those will be far less frequent than the module updates.

Plasma, so you said that worked, could you elaborate on how you did that please?

Thanks guys, Laz

Lazarus Magni · Joined: 15 Jun 2011 Posts: 30

I just thought I would share this for anyone else interested in it.
http://www.ad-sl.com/guides/neverwinter-nights/manual-restarts-with-nwnx/manual-server-restart.php
This works when used by a DM, not sure if it will for players. Thank you ad-sl.com!

Lokey · Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 158

Seems that it has the problems I listed, since they say it's possible to lose data.
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Lazarus Magni · Joined: 15 Jun 2011 Posts: 30

Hmm, iduno, I have not noticed anything yet. I kinda assumed that refered to perhaps if a character had not saved (or been autosaved.)

Lokey · Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 158

You tell if it closes cleanly by being logged in when it happens and getting a server is shutting down notification instead of timing out.
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