custom-hooks-commands

Really respect you guys. I think I know a lot more than most and I know almost nothing...

Should be able to make a quick plugin like that, and leverage Harmony to patch it in.

Ok thanks that will work, now if I can find references for 1.0...

Yeah, start the loop with an OnStart handler, then add an rcon command to support stopping it... All that for a freaking log message lol

that's why I suggested to spam till be told to stop

Seems silly to do that just to write a line to the log though and there's no guarantee that it won't write the message before the web API is available.

it sure can

If a C# mod can hook into a kind of OnStart event, that would work fine

Unsure, but I know if you have heavy log spam it can get throttled, so I imagine it is nearly reading it live.

What's CSMM's polling interval?

Something like that. I think I could probably set up a cron to write a message to the server after it "should" be online. However that doesn't fix the edge case where the server comes back up after a crash.

Or Takaro..

Looks like a custom c# mod is needed to spam a message in the server boot until it reads a log message telling it to shut up 🙂

If you have dynamic mesh turned on, there will be a few messages for that after gameserver logon. But we're talking a difference in time of milliseconds, so that isn't going to help either.

Yep

Lines like

2024-06-28T23:05:19 289.384 INF Time: 11.15m FPS:... 

also only happens with players online

Have loads of broadcast messages from the cron though.

Yeah. I have a server that has been online since noon and no one has joined it. Line doesn't exist.

Are you sure that's true? This seems like a player object being used to access server data, seems like it would always trigger right after server start

But your server could be online for hours before sending that message. So it isn't useful for the intended purpose

Which is good enough for my use if no reliable earlier message works...

It doesn't exist until a handshake is initiated

Only once. It appears only once in all my log files, before the first player tries to connect.

That is the first line that appears when someone tries to connect

This might work. This doesn't appear to be a real player, and this line appears nearly immediately before the first of my real players connects (usually as soon as possible on server start).

INF [NET] PlayerConnected EntityID=-1, PltfmId='Local_', CrossId='<unknown/none>', OwnerID='<unknown/none>', PlayerName='', ClientNumber='1'

Lately I haven't been able to get either to work

Before a20.4, I always used " GameServer.LogOn". But when EOS was added, that stopped working reliably for some reason, so then I was using "[EOS] Server registered" because that happened to work.

No, time between is pretty close. Maybe two seconds difference.

actually would not work, ignore me

If so I have a damn complex way to get a server restart lol

I wonder if you can have {{getVar "X"}} in the regex field...

I believe there was a greater gap though. Comparing logs atm

True

Actually I don't think that's the issue. I see the log line that the web server started appears before the log line that the server is registered.

No idea if there is a dependency like that

I currently have it loading immediately after

But I don't think you can load it before the TFP mods can you?

Interesting, how can you do that?

Thats where the sse server starts

That web app was there before though

You could try loading tfp webserver way earlier

I imagine largely because it's now piggybacking on the built-in web console

Yeah that stinks...

The port appears to be getting opened later than it was before, so CSMM isn't able to catch the logs as early.

Ugh probably something to do with the Harmony changes

IMHO, the last line in the log that could reliably be used is "GameServer.LogOn successful", and that hasn't worked at all.

It isn't. And neither is the one I used before we had EOS

Hmm ok ty, that line is there in 1.0, is CSMM not reading it?

INF [EOS] Server registered, session: [id]

If you're on a21, the [EOS] Server Registered or whatever it says works. If you're on V1.0 I haven't found it yet.

Does anyone know the first console message that CSMM is capable of reading on server start?