On 2/5/2024 at 5:46 PM, ich777 said:

Don't worry about the shutdown, the container will automatically restart if the game is shutdown.

 

Is this for all or most of your game docker containers or only Palworld?

I actually have a few scripts to "gracefully" shutdown the server via rcon if the docker container is running, and then the container itself. But if it auto restarts and it is doing stuff again it could maybe cause issues if i then abruptly stop the container? If i needed to restart the game I've always used the docker restart command.

11 minutes ago, Ocgineer said:

Is this for all or most of your game docker containers or only Palworld?

It should be the case for all but keep in mind some game servers have a fixed save interval and do not save when you gracefully shutdown the server.

 

11 minutes ago, Ocgineer said:

I actually have a few scripts to "gracefully" shutdown the server via rcon if the docker container is running, and then the container itself.

You usually just need to stop the container, maybe for some games it would be wise to issue a save command first through RCON and then stop the container but the containers in general are designed in that way so that they gracefully shutdown the application inside the container.

 

They all have their own shutdown routine and only a few containers (mostly WINE based containers) can‘t be stopped gracefully, but as said, only a few.

 

BTW why should they be not stopped gracefully?

 

11 minutes ago, Ocgineer said:

If i needed to restart the game I've always used the docker restart command.

A shutdown will also restart the container because I use --restart=unless-stopped

 

However if you stop the container right after the shutdown it should be fine since my containers updating steam cmd, then they are looking for updates for the game itself and then finally start the dedicated server.

4 minutes ago, ich777 said:

You usually just need to stop the container, maybe for some games it would be wise to issue a save command first through RCON and then stop the container but the containers in general are designed in that way so that they gracefully shutdown the application inside the container.

 

Ok good to know.

And yes my shutdown script first announces shutdown in-game and then issues the save command about 10-15 seconds before shutdown if available via RCON so I'm good on that regard 😆 I now can remove any "restart docker $name" from my restart scripts as that is not needed then 😄 I like to use a script to shutdown as I also let it create a fresh backup of the saved folder.

On 2/1/2024 at 11:03 PM, ich777 said:

May I ask why do you run the container in br0?

As I explained in that thread that you've found it has no real advantages...

 

I run my docker containers in br0 purely for my sanity. Ran into a networking problem long ago involving docker containers and just have done it that way since. I know the security implications, and that I can re-map a docker container's ports if needed; but I find it easier to just assign an IP so I don't have to worry about remapping.

Hey, for some reason Project Zomboid specifically is taking up a significantly larger size of my docker img file than my other services, I don't think this is proper?

 

3 minutes ago, suchamoneypit said:

Hey, for some reason Project Zomboid specifically is taking up a significantly larger size of my docker img file than my other services, I don't think this is proper?

Project Zomboid is a pretty small container usually, maybe something is writing in the image itself, please do a force update on the Docker page and see if that makes a difference but before doing that please check if your docker mounts are correct in the template.

Good day, I've got Palworld running and working on truenas scale, but today I'm failing to update from 1.0.4 to 1.0.4.1. Restarting the container doesn't seem to work. I see no obvious error messages and have tried restarting the app, the entire server and via command line: docker restart <container-id>. I'm afraid I'm way to new to docker, so my apologies for that.

11 hours ago, Kirino said:

Good day, I've got Palworld running and working on truenas scale, but today I'm failing to update from 1.0.4 to 1.0.4.1. Restarting the container doesn't seem to work. I see no obvious error messages and have tried restarting the app, the entire server and via command line: docker restart <container-id>. I'm afraid I'm way to new to docker, so my apologies for that.

Please stop the container, then delete everything in the gamefiles directory except for the Pal directory (this is where you save files are located) and then start the container again.

43 minutes ago, ich777 said:

Please top the container, then delete everything in the gamefiles directory except for the Pal directory (this is where you save files are located) and then start the container again?

That did the trick, thank you very much for your quick reply.

1 hour ago, ich777 said:

Project Zomboid is a pretty small container usually, maybe something is writing in the image itself, please do a force update on the Docker page and see if that makes a difference but before doing that please check if your docker mounts are correct in the template.

thank you, that did take it from 1.07GB to 6.04kB. Will keep and eye on it and see if it climbs in size again. 

9 minutes ago, suchamoneypit said:

thank you, that did take it from 1.07GB to 6.04kB. Will keep and eye on it and see if it climbs in size again. 

Maybe it is writing something in the /tmp directory or somewhere else... Really can't tell for sure, you are the first reporting this issue.

On 2/6/2024 at 1:29 PM, ich777 said:

I had one user IIRC.

 

Then the conversion was not done properly.

 

I really can't help with that since I've never done that but it should be totally doable.

Took a bit but got it to run. 


Maybe related, but it seems that no password is needed to enter the server. 

In the config folder there is a server password. Anyone else have that issue?

 

11 minutes ago, Beryllium said:

Maybe related, but it seems that no password is needed to enter the server. 

I don't understand, no you actually can join with a password.

 

12 minutes ago, Beryllium said:

In the config folder there is a server password. Anyone else have that issue?

You shouldn't be able to join when a password is set in the configuration, are you sure you are editing the correct file?

 

36 minutes ago, Beryllium said:

Took a bit but got it to run. 


Maybe related, but it seems that no password is needed to enter the server. 

In the config folder there is a server password. Anyone else have that issue?

 

Did you edit the config file while the server was running?

18 minutes ago, ich777 said:

I don't understand, no you actually can join with a password.

 

You shouldn't be able to join when a password is set in the configuration, are you sure you are editing the correct file?

 

Yeah 

I deleted the worldoptions.sav file and now it works again. 

Its weird. At some moment it stopped working with the password (you didnt need a password to enter) and that is the fix apparently. 

 

Edited February 7, 20242 yr by Beryllium

What is the admin password used for and where would i use it? im a newbie trying to set up a palworld host server and am trying to move a local save to become the server game save.

1 hour ago, Betterdays95 said:

What is the admin password used for and where would i use it? im a newbie trying to set up a palworld host server and am trying to move a local save to become the server game save.

Admin pw is used for the rcon. it would go into the ini where the rest f the settings are.

4 minutes ago, Spectral Force said:

Admin pw is used for the rcon. it would go into the ini where the rest f the settings are.

What is an rcon? I've been going into the .ini files just by using the file directory from my main pc and i havent needed a password to go into them.

Can anyone help me with this? my palworld server wont auto update.

 

 

Connecting anonymously to Steam Public...OK
Waiting for client config...OK
Waiting for user info...OK
 Update state (0x0) : Timed out waiting for update to start, bailing.
Error! App '2394010' state is 0x402 after update job.

52 minutes ago, Betterdays95 said:

What is an rcon? I've been going into the .ini files just by using the file directory from my main pc and i havent needed a password to go into them.

Remote Connect to issue commands outside of being in the game.

Not too sure if anyone else is having this issue however, the broadcast command for RCON seems to not be working.. I am able to do everything else (save, showplayers, info etc) with no issues but am getting an "unknown command" return when trying to broadcast a message using "timeout 1 rcon -a 192.168.20.5:25576 -p password broadcast Saving..."

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated i'm sure it is something silly. Thanks in advance.

34 minutes ago, noraa said:

Not too sure if anyone else is having this issue however, the broadcast command for RCON seems to not be working.. I am able to do everything else (save, showplayers, info etc) with no issues but am getting an "unknown command" return when trying to broadcast a message using "timeout 1 rcon -a 192.168.20.5:25576 -p password broadcast Saving..."

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated i'm sure it is something silly. Thanks in advance.

 

with the updated rcon plugin you'll need to use quotes around the commands that contain spaces.

timeout 1 rcon -a 192.168.20.5:25576 -p password "broadcast Saving..."

 

else, AFAIK, it'll see the "Saving..." as a second RCON command.

Edited February 8, 20242 yr by Ocgineer

2 hours ago, Konman. said:

Can anyone help me with this? my palworld server wont auto update.

Please see this post:

 

Is there a way to set up Palworld to auto restart when a new update is available? I have it restarting daily at the same time, but if an update releases, players need to wait until the scheduled restart to play unless i manually restart it.

Someone posted a restart script a few pages back. I don't think the container is smart enough to know when palword has an update, but I could be mistaken.