(NEED HELP)

GUYS PLZ HELP I AM LOOKING FOR A PLUGIN FOR MY SERVER THAT SHUTS IT DOWN AND STARTS IT BACK UP EVERY 3HR (RESTART PLUGIN) BUT EVERY PLUGIN I FOUND SHUTS IT DOWN BUT DOESN T TURN IT BACK ON

 

First, use a descriptive title, "need help" doesn't help me understand your problem and it makes people ignore your post.
Second, don't use ALL CAPS because it's annoying.

Now, plugins can't start the server back because they're removed from memory once the server is shut down.

What you need is a script... if you're running windows, a batch script "start.bat" or something, would be fairly easy to make:

Code:

@echo off
cls

:restart
start "Minecraft Server" /wait /B /high java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar craftbukkit.jar
echo Server stopped, restarting...
goto restart

That basically re-starts the server whenever it closes, by crashes, shutdown or whatever... you'd have to close the script first to stop the server for good.
Also, it starts it as high priority with 1GB memory allocated, you might want to change those.
Don't remove the title, you can change it tough.

For unix based systems I have no clue.

 

thanks man

wait so is that the exact code i need to shut the server down every 3hrs and and start it back up

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Basically yes.... paste it in a "start.bat" file and start the server using that.... but change the jar name accordingly.

 

can we make it so it stops the server using the command stop

 

For stopping you should use a plugin.

 

Doesn't bukkit already allow you to type "stop" to stop the server? Or does the script not allow for commands? Then you could do /stop in-game.

 

russjr08 "stop" stops the server at that exact moment, he wants to stop it after 3 hours automatically.

 

Ohh I see. Hmm.. yeah, I'm sure there are plugins that will do this (Such as SimpleRestart http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/simple_restart/)

 

It seems there is a plugin that "restarts" the server, but it's using the same method I suggested, scripts :} python for unix and batch for linux, Crowdy199(9) you should use SimpleRestart.

 

I'm sure theres also a cron job you could setup too. For his purpose though it seems like it'd just be a good idea to use SimpleRestart.