Simple teamspeak 3 server install with autostart with centos 5 (5.x)

**dr_patso** · 16-10-2011, 04:37

prerequisites: Centos 5.x 64-bit installed (this may or may not work for CentOS 6 maybe someone in thread can confirm)

This guide is for the 64-bit version of CentOS, it should work with 32-bit version of centos if you download the 32-bit linux server and modify the path to the correct one in your init.d teamspeak file

First off, I'm behind a router and have ISPConfig 3 installed and it has firewall that I had to unblock these ports in via my admin tool. I have CentOS firewall and SE linux DISABLED, you can add the ports you need for teamspeak in the customize section for the firewall in setup.. to edit your firewall in CentOS just use the setup command

Code:

setup

The following ports will need to be forwarded if you are behind a router and opened in your firewall (or at your own risk disable firewall/SELinux)

9987 (UDP)virtual voice server
10011 (TCP)server query
30033 (TCP)file transfer

easy to install teamspeak 3.
how to auto start teamspeak 3 server centos
startup script for teamspeak 3 server centos

Install and run as different user

Code:

useradd teamspeak

Code:

passwd teamspeak

I didn't have to do this sudo was already installed on my centos 5.7 but just incase

Code:

yum install sudo

Then give teamspeak some permissions and comment out a line with visudo command.
if you haven't used VI.. when you find where you need to add text using arrow keys hit the letter "a" to begin editing, once you have added the teamspeak line(like code below) and commented out requiretty you hit "escape" then type ":wq" and hit enter..

Code:

visudo

and add this right below ## Allow root to run any commands anywhere and root ALL=(All) so it looks like this

Code:

## Allow root to run any commands anywhere
root    ALL=(ALL)       ALL
teamspeak ALL=(ALL)     ALL

Also you will need to disable requiretty add a number sign in front of the line to comment it out so it looks like

Code:

#Defaults     requiretty

good job! now get out by hitting escape then :wq then enter and login as teamspeak with your password

Code:

logout

Now that you are logged in as teamspeak, let's download teamspeak 3 server
Go to this website on your machine http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads
pick your server, (im running 64-bit centos so I choose server amd64 under linux)
Agree to terms and conditions and it gives you a direct link to download while you are waiting.. my link is http://teamspeak.gameserver.gamed.de...4-3.0.0.tar.gz so I copy and paste, go into putty and type wget and put in link

Code:

wget http://teamspeak.gameserver.gamed.de/ts3/releases/3.0.0/teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64-3.0.0.tar.gz

to extract then type

Code:

tar -zxvf teamspeak3-server*

then remove tar (this will be different if you have installed a different version, just do a quick "ls" to see the file above you need to remove)

Code:

rm teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64-3.0.0.tar.gz

This should put the teamspeak server directory under /home/teamspeak/teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64

which will change if you have different version/path/user

Now let's not start it..
login as root

Code:

logout

and go to init.d

Code:

cd /etc/init.d

download my teamspeak init.d script

Code:

wget http://jump-jets.com/teamspeak

if this wget command worked ^^ skip ONLY the marked off section, still need to chmod the teamspeak file..

THIS SECTION ONLY IF HOSTED INIT.D TEAMSPEAK FILE IS DOWN
we create teamspeak file

Code:

nano teamspeak

if you don't have nano installed

Code:

yum install nano

I seriously hate vi.. btw nano is easier to use

once you have nano open insert this code

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#
# teamspeak        Startup script for the Teamspeak 3 Server
#
# chkconfig: - 85 15
# description: The Teamspeak voip server  
#
# processname: teamspeak
#
start(){
        

        # If using an SELinux system such as RHEL 4/5, use the command below
        # instead of the "su":
        # eval "runuser - jboss -c "$JBOSS_HOME/bin/run.sh > /dev/null 2> /dev/null &"
        # if the 'su -l ...' command fails (the -l flag is not recognized by my su cmd) try:
        #   sudo -u jboss $JBOSS_HOME/bin/run.sh > /dev/null 2> 
 
sudo -u teamspeak /home/teamspeak/teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64/ts3server_startscript.sh start      

}

stop(){
        

        # If using an SELinux system such as RHEL 4, use the command below
        # instead of the "su":
        # eval "runuser - jboss -c "$JBOSS_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh -S &"
        # if the 'su -l ...' command fails try:
        #   sudo -u jboss $JBOSS_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh -S &
        
sudo -u teamspeak /home/teamspeak/teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64/ts3server_startscript.sh stop
}

restart(){
        stop
        # give stuff some time to stop before we restart
        sleep 3
        # protect against any services that can't stop before we restart
        # if the 'su -l ...' command fails try:
        #   sudo -u jboss killall java
        start
}

case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  restart)
        restart
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: teamspeak {start|stop|restart}"
        exit 1
esac

exit 0

PLEASE READ
Some of these single lines are too long to fit into putty / nano length wise, I had to go through and backspace some lines that were down on line below

Now hit ctrl+x and y then enter to save, and you will need to chmod it

END OF SECTION

Code:

chmod 755 teamspeak

good job! now turn it on for boot

Code:

chkconfig --levels 235 teamspeak on

now let's start the teamspeak server

Code:

/etc/init.d/teamspeak start

Once that’s done, you’ll see a login name, password and token. Keep them safe! (I highlighted and copied via "right mouse click" in putty and this screen went away) When you connect to your teamspeak it will ask for that key and you can put it in and you are an administrator.. hang on to this because you may need it again..

Congratulations! You now have a 24/7 Team Speak 3 server.

Troubleshooting below

if you have issues starting the server via /etc/init.d/teamspeak start just go into the teamspeak file and make sure it looks exactly like this, it also won't work if you have teamspeak installed in a different location or different username, it's pretty easy to pick out what line in the teamspeaki file under /etc/init.d/ is actually the command to start/stop the server, restart just runs the start and stop command with a short sleep timer it's just the path to teamspeaks normal startup script with the "start" command, or for STOP the "stop" command

the lines(basically the path to teamspeak folder) you may need to modify in the teamspeak file under /etc/init.d are below

Code:

sudo -u teamspeak /home/teamspeak/teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64/ts3server_startscript.sh start

Code:

sudo -u teamspeak /home/teamspeak/teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64/ts3server_startscript.sh stop

**dr_patso** · 16-10-2011, 09:09

I'm going to run through this guide at some point soon make sure everything is written properly.

**drzaco** · 18-10-2011, 04:50

Im new to this ive done this so whats the commands to test ??? restart stop start ???

**dr_patso** · 19-10-2011, 01:40

This is directed towards drzaco

I have updated the guide

if you followed this guide exactly, all you should have to do is go into init.d and remove teamspeak file

Code:

rm teamspeak

then download mine,

Code:

wget http://jump-jets.com/teamspeak

chmod it again

Code:

chmod 755 teamspeak

then try and start it

Code:

/etc/init.d/teamspeak start

don't forget to add it to boot

Code:

chkconfig --levels 235 teamspeak on

Also you may need to do this below for it to autostart correctly.

Code:

visudo

and comment out defaults requiretty so it looks like this

Code:

#Defaults     requiretty

**dr_patso** · 19-10-2011, 07:01

Would appreciate any feedback on this thread... When i search for autostart teamspeak centos on google, everything is way over complicated..

just add my script to init.d (I know nothing about linux and edited one in a few minutes to work, and I have cleaned it up a bit since then)

modify the start lines in that file if needed

chmod 755 the file

run chkconfig for it to run at boot..

**hiivsha** · 19-10-2011, 14:51

(sorry for my english, I'm french

)

I've installed TS3 with your guide.
At the end, when launching TS3 I've this error msg :
"Starting the TeamSpeak 3 server
TeamSpeak 3 server started, for details please view the log file
/home/teamspeak/teamspeak3-server_linux-x86/ts3server_startscript.sh: ./ts3server_linux_x86: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory"

Where is the log file ?
I suppose it miss one component in my server ???
Can you help me please ?
Thx

**hiivsha** · 19-10-2011, 15:07

Ok, I've try with the amd64 version and it's working.
(My CPU is an x86_64 and not an amd but...)

Now I'll try client connexion at home in a few hours

Is the database creating itself ??? Or must I create it manually and how ?

**dr_patso** · 19-10-2011, 15:44

hivasha, I'm not really sure what db you are talking about.. I'm pretty sure Teamspeak 3 server contains all the settings it needs to work properly. I haven't had a problem.

I haven't tested, but I assume this would work for 32-bit server as well, ofcourse with the file paths modified and using 32-bit linux.

I assume you were trying to launch the 32-bit version running on a 64-bit host and that's why it didn't work at first.

**chero** · 26-12-2011, 05:38

Hey there,

can someone explain me how i put a script into the autostart by using centos?
Google doesn't help very much.
atm i start it manually with

Code:

cd /home/ts3/
./ts3server_startscript.sh start

Edit by mod
Thread Merged. Next time please use the forum search function.

--- Merged ---

Code:

[teamspeak@lvps178-77-99-135 ~]$ /etc/init.d/teamspeak start
ts3server.pid found, but no server running. Possibly your previously started server crashed
Please view the logfile for details.
rm: remove write-protected regular file `ts3server.pid'?

so whats wrong

/

--- Merged ---

ok got it:
if you have installed ts3 as root you have to set the ts folder to the "teamspeak" usergroup

als Root:
cd /home/
chown -R teamspeak directory

**yiso91** · 27-12-2011, 14:30

Hello,

I have been running my TS3 server on the root for more than one year now. I have made the following changes into the script. As Am running Centos 5.7 32bit

sudo -u root /root/teamspeak3-server_linux-x86/ts3server_startscript.sh start
sudo -u root /root/teamspeak3-server_linux-x86/ts3server_startscript.sh stop

When applying the code
/etc/init.d/teamspeak start

I get a long list of this error
sudo: /root/teamspeak3-server_linux-x86/ts3server_startscript.sh: command not found

Anything done wrong ?

Regards,,,

**Apryed** · 23-05-2012, 18:45

I confirm that this does not work with CentOS 6. I'll Keep on searching.

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