[Plugin] ShutdownInfoTimer

Ok 1 thing I have noticed is if you change your config and just restart the server the changes do not hold. You have to fully shut down the server and restart it from stopped for the changes in the system.property file to take hold. I have had 2 mornings the server did not make the announcements and I witnessed 1 of these myself. Although I have had the announcements work properly under test conditions and the only difference is the hard stop and restart rather then a regular automated restart. I have a server hosted by GTX and this is what is happening. Also if you use the reloadplugins command in the console it causes the server to crash and has to be restarted.

ok day 3 of morning restarts did not work. I hard started the server yesterday morning and let it run through an evening restart and it worked so I left it run but no announcement this morning. I know the first position in the settings works after a hard start but after automated restart my 11:00 setting is not working and if I leave it I bet the evening announcement won't work. I have not tried this yet but it would follow the pattern.

I have a GTX server and use there auto restart system set for every 12 hrs. It seems that it is not loading the system.properties on automated restart.

the reloadplugin thing seems to have gone away

I changed the bebug setting and reloadplugins and the server crashed

the server restarted ok from a hard restart but crashed on reloadplugins.

Day 4 of no restarts announcement in the morning. I made the debug change and when relodplugins the server crashed so I hard started the server. It ran through the night restart fine but when it came time for the morning restart it failed again. I did not do a hard start after evening restart so this is where the problem lies. where is the debug log kept? I will attempt to mimic the problem and send the log if I could find it. The timer does not load system.propertise after a soft restart only a hard start.

Hallo, bei mir ist folgendes Problem er gibt die Meldungen aus aber zwei Stunden zu spät.
Also Server startet um 18.00 Uhr neu aber die Meldung kommt erst um 20.00 Uhr ?.
Aber mit den Werten von 18.00 Uhr.

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Oke, can you send me the log/s
do You used dayly=11\:00 23\:00?

yes the times are 11\:00 and 23\:00

I will send the log after tonights restart when I expect the server anponcements to fail so as to not interrupt my people. I will sent the log from before the restart and after
and if the announcements fail tonight then after the auto restart I will do a hard restart so you can compare them

The server announcements worked for the evening restart but I think I did a hard start this morning
here is the softrestart file after evening restart.
1525834814.log
and I shut down the server and then did a hard start for this log
1525834954.log
now after the restart at 11 am eastern time I will know if a hard start allowes the morning announcements. Will let you know then.

my system.properties looks like this

#Thu May 03 17:43:05 EDT 2018
Debug=3
dayly=11\:00 23\:00
intervall=15 10 5 1
restartTime=3

ok update, as of this morning the first setting in system.properties did work after a hard restart last night. I will let it run and see if it will work tonight. I expect it will not after the soft restart but we will see. The hard start last night did make a difference this morning. Maybe it will just work now I hope, but until now I have not had any luck with the soft restart but as I said I will let you know.

The server is a windows server and I run win 10 on my rig.

Ok we have some more progress. This shouldn't be this way but if I do a hard start before the first announcement then both announcements will work but if I do a restart between the 2 announcements I have to do a hard start after the second restart to get the first announcement to work again. I will tell you tomorrow morning if once set up so that both announcements work weather the first announcement will work on the second day.

ok bad news. This is what has to be done to get the restart announcements to work. The announcements failed this morning again after letting the server run over night without a hard start. The third announcement session failed.

1. your config instructions are correct.

2 after config you need to hard start the server, not reloadplugins or restart the server. If you reload plugins the server will crash and if you restart the server, only the second announcement will work.

3.If you hard start or restart the server while the time is in between the 2 announcement times, you must do a hard start after the second announcement to get both to work.

4. No matter what! you MUST do a hard start after the second restart to get both announcements to work the next day and has to be done EVERY evening.

Restart script is provided by my server provider GTX. I rent.

your messages work great. the timing of the messages are what they should be. it will not play the first set of announcements unless you stop the server and then start it sometime before the morning announcements. It will only use the second set of announcements, 12 hrs later if the automated restart happens. to get the first set of announcements to work you must do a hard start before it or if you let the system run it's course for the full 24 hrs and start another cycle, the first set of announcements will not happen or fail. The later set of announcements will still happen for some reason after an automated restart that my provider provides, but the first set of announcements will not happen on the second day without shutting down the server and starting it back up. Also if you start the server between the first and second set of announcements you must do a shut down and start after the nightly announcements. This makes it hard for the owner/admin that has to always stop the server and start the server by hand every night. If it is stopped and started in the afternoon the morning announcements will fail.

what I am looking for is a plugin I can start and makes announcements every 12 hrs without having to play with restarting the server to get the announcements to work.

Quote from noci

Offensichtlich reicht meine Praktische erfahrung mit Windows Servern nicht aus. Hier könnte mir mal einer sagen wie Windows RW im Serverbetrieb neu Startet? Ich denke über PowerShell?!?
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Obviously, my practical experience with Windows servers is not enough. Here could someone tell me how Windows RW restarts in server mode? I think about PowerShell?!?

does it even matter how the server restarts? Shouldn't make a difference to the plugin's function But yes a windows server is restarted with almost the same commands as a linux one but instead of doing through the shell it can be done either through CMD or in case you need some more special command the PowerShell.

The way I understand a plugin like this would work is by checking the difference between the current server time with the restart time every 2-5 seconds and when that difference is less than 1, 5, 10, etc. minutes it would send a message.

You can get the current server time by using java.util.Date and then read the restart time from a file as you have already done. ()

The difference is long difference = restartTime.getTime() - currentTime.getTime(); in ms.

Thus divide that number by 60000 to get the time difference in minutes.

Then start sending the announcements in the predefined intervals when the minutes value is less than e.g. 10.