error occured - "server has been NOT started"

[freshie]

Hello

I am running a Linux server, with 5 TS servers running under 1 install, different ports. When I make any changes to 1 server and have to shut it down, when I go to start it again I get the following:

server has been NOT started

I have to SSH into the box and restart the whole server manually. My guess is something to do with permissions?

Any ideas?

Thanks

[freshie]

wow, these forums are sure active.

[PureGrain]

Are you shutting the servers down first?

Alot of times it is best to do so before making any changes. If you make changes to a server and try to restart it without shutting it down, it will try and restart using the same ports, therefore giving you the error and requiring you to reboot the server to regain those ports.

Just a guess.

[freshie]

hmmmm! good thought! i'll keep that in mind and try it again. =\

i think i may have found something related.

i am runnin the TS at home on a P4 1.7ghz with 1gb ram. after starting the server and leaving it run for about 30 min it eats up 225mb of ram and is using 94% of the cpu.

something must be seriously wrong with my installation.

what do you use to monitor the server in linux? i am using daemontools which i use for game servers. i think this may be causing the problem.

thanks for your feedback

[freshie]

holy crap

and now my log file is 320mb

yeah, something is starting it over, and over, and over ... lol.

[pim]

Let us know if you've found the rootcause plz

[freshie]

The problem was being caused by Daemontools.

Because TeamSpeak starts its own Daemon and returns to the shell, Daemontools was simply loading TS over and over until all the memory on the machine was full. =\

So, for now I have disabled the Daemontools monitoring service and I just start teamspeak manually. But I do need to find a solution for monitoring TS incase it crashes (as it so often does).