restarting servers

[aguess]

hi,

i run several quake2 servers for an isp, mainly on linux. i just use the inittab to restart them which has worked perfectly fine for me.

i have one problem server which is a quake 2 jailbreak server. the mod crashes like a mofo under linux and doesn't fair much better under nt, but at least it stays up for a few days at a time.

anyway, i'm running this mod on an nt4 server from a batch file :

:start
Q:\quake2\quake2.exe +set game jail +set dedicated 1 +exec server.cfg
goto start

basically the idea was that when the quake2 server crashed, it would just goto the start and run again. the problem is that i get a windows error when the q2 server crashes, and the batch file waits for this to be responded to before it continues on and restarts the q2 server.

i'm sure i've played on a jailbreak server which crashed and then almost immediately restarted allowing me to reconnect.

can anyone tell me how to effectively restart a server automatically under nt4?

thanks

[Barry White's Pants]

Hi,

Check out ServerDoc. I haven't tried it but it sounds like it might do exacly what you want. I placed a news item about it today on our web site:
http://www.gameadmins.com/index.asp#newsitem979190148,44967,

Barry (MAD)

[aguess]

ta mad http://gameadmins.com/ubb/smile.gif it does look biz

under nt it suggests turning off drwatson's display notification but i have no idea how to do this. it says to run Dr.Watson and uncheck that option - if i run drwatson, all i get is a msg box saying everything is fine and an ok button on it.

anyone got any ideas?

tia