How to stop server

[FAXES]

Hi I’m running Ubuntu on Linux and via rcon the quit command does not work. How can I restart the server. I also have access to the terminal.

Is there a resource I can stop to stop the server, or a cmd?

[Envious]

I also don’t know but I do control + C to kill it

infact I also use crontab to get the pid of my the fxserver and then kill it every 6th hour.

[Vespura]

@FAXES

I also have access to the terminal.

When you’re in the terminal/server console just use CTRL + C to stop the script.

The quit you mentioned is only meant for clients to be used in their console to quit the game, it doesn’t actually stop the server.

[FAXES]

yeah its strange though, because I use screen on Ubuntu and if I do screen -list it says theres no screens (but how is the server running). I also uninstalled and reinstalled screen. So I can’t ctrl C it.

[Vespura]

The way I usually do it is like this:

cd /directory/to/the/server/here
screen -S fxserver
bash ./run.sh +exec server.cfg

To detach the screen, press:

CTRL+A+D

Whenever you want to return to the screen, type this:

screen -r fxserver

to close the server press:

CTRL+C

Note this will not terminate the screen session, hence why there shouldn’t appear any screens if you type:

screen -ls

If you want to close this screen type:

exit

If your screens are somehow messed up, try restarting your VPS.